Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, February 1, 2024
Posted: 3rd February 2024
ERIK ENGLISH
A history of the Doomsday Clock in 4 minutes
The Doomsday Clock has moved 25 times in the past eight decades. Check out the Bulletin’s latest video to learn more about the Clock’s history. Watch here.
AREG DANAGOULIAN
How nuclear power saved Armenia
“The world is currently in the process of reevaluating its past rejection of nuclear power,” writes a nuclear expert from MIT. What can the world learn about nuclear power from Armenia? Read more.
ROBERT ALVAREZ
The fallout never ended
Decades of nuclear weapons tests and other radioactive experiments injured or killed scientists, soldiers, and innocent bystanders. Many of them have never been compensated, but new efforts may change that. An expert on the US nuclear program looks back at its harmful effects, and how the government addressed them—or didn’t. Read more.
Science on Screen at the Gene Siskel Film Center
For Chicago-based Bulletin readers: join us for a series of screenings including Godzilla, Don’t Look Up, Contagion, and War Games.
Watch films with experts and discuss the end times, and how we can avoid them. Running next weekend, February 9th – 12th.
ELENA SIMPERL, JOHANNA WALKER
What the G7 countries should do at their next summit to regulate AI
Two artificial intelligence experts from King’s College London on what world leaders should seek to accomplish at the next G7 conference. Read more.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Left out of more bombastic coverage about some alleged annihilation of U.S. liquefied natural gas export capacity is just how modest Friday’s announcement really is.”
—Kate Aronoff, “The Media Coverage of Biden’s Natural Gas Decision Is Ridiculous,” The New Republic
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