Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Posted: 9th May 2024
May 9, 2024
Since the year 2000, landscape artist Will Sillin, farmowner Mike Wisseman, and his daughter Jess Marsh Wissemann, have been using GPS-guided mowers, camera-carrying drones, and graph paper to create elaborate images in a working corn field in Sunderland, Massachusetts. Visitors can walk through the resulting maze. Image courtesy of Will Sillin and Mike’s Maze.
DAN DROLLETTE JR
Introduction: Bringing the world’s food production in line with global climate goals
“Food systems—how we grow, transport, prepare, and dispose of the food we eat—are responsible for roughly one-third of all global greenhouse gas emissions.” The Bulletin’s May magazine focuses on the future of food in a time of climate change. Read more.
EMILE FRISON
We cannot afford another lost year for food and climate action
“It is really only in the last two or three years that food systems have begun to be taken seriously in climate change spaces,” says Emile Frison, founder of The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. Read more.
ERIK ENGLISH
Israel to perform at Eurovision. Expect protests, machine guns, and drones
As the death toll and destruction in Gaza continues, Malmö, Sweden is bracing for protests ahead of Israel’s Eurovision performance on Thursday. Read more.
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HANS M. KRISTENSEN, MATT KORDA, ELIANA JOHNS, MACKENZIE KNIGHT
United States nuclear weapons, 2024
How many warheads are in the United States stockpile? The current estimate: approximately 3,708. All in the latest Nuclear Notebook entry. Read more.
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The Bulletin’s 2023 Annual Report
The past year was a monumental one for the Bulletin. Our 2023 Annual Report is now available to read on our website. Read more.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“As we all seek to turn the page on COVID-19, policymakers risk losing the progress made over the last three years. Our nation can no longer wait for a biological event to occur and only then respond to it, expending enormous resources because we did not invest in biodefense.”
— Joseph I. Lieberman, Thomas J. Ridge, preface of “The National Blueprint for Biodefense,” Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense
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