Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, June 24, 2024
Posted: 24th June 2024
June 24, 2024
A Trident II D5 missile test. The US military, along with others around the world, is upgrading its nuclear weapons systems. (Credit: US Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ronald Gutridge.)
STEWART PRAGER
The US nuclear arms control community needs a strategic plan
Societal forces arguing for nuclear weapons have a far larger influence on US policy than arms control advocates. The arms control and disarmament community must unify to effectively reduce nuclear risk. Read more.
CHRISTIAN RUHL
Beijing is unavailable to take your call: Why the US-China crisis hotline doesn’t work
A US-Russia crisis “hotline” helped stave off nuclear conflict during the Cold War. The current US-China one wouldn’t. Read more.
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JESSICA MCKENZIE
The University of Chicago’s new climate initiative: brave research program or potentially dangerous foray into solar geoengineering?
“I think part of the big story here is not even just about geoengineering, specifically, but about the fact that the university decided to basically give control over their biggest climate initiative, primarily, to the economics department,” said Raymond Pierrehumbert, Oxford physicist and former UChicago professor. Read more.
IN THE NEWS
The great powers are itching for another nuclear arms race. Who will stop them?
In this op-ed, former NSC staff director Steve Andreasen cites the Nuclear Notebooks to highlight global nuclear data and calls for a coordinated strategy to address nuclear threats and ensure strategic stability. Read more.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“We don’t want to be in a situation where one region is forced to do geoengineering to combat what another part of the world has done to respond to droughts and heatwaves.”
— Jessica Wan, “Climate change is unearthing and erasing history all at once,”The Guardian
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