Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July 18, 2024
Posted: 18th July 2024
Rodney C. Ewing (Photo: Rod Searcey / Stanford University)FRANÇOIS DIAZ-MAURIN
A personal tribute to Rod Ewing, the man against a mountain. And my friend.
In light of Rodney C. Ewing’s recent passing, nuclear affairs editor Francois Diaz-Maurin remembers his mentor and friend who served as a longtime Bulletincontributor, former Science and Security Board member, and an extraordinary scientist. Read more.
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SUMMER VIDEO ARCHIVE DIVE
After the fallout: Oppenheimer’s Trinity test has US civilians seeking compensation today
Following the anniversary of the Trinity test on July 16, we’re revisiting an interview with Tina Cordova. She is a co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, which advocates for those affected by radiation exposure from the Trinity nuclear weapon test. Watch here.
FROM OUR ARCHIVES
Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test
The Trinity test took place 79 years ago this week. The site was chosen, in part, for its supposed isolation. Yet nearly half-a-million people were living within a 150-mile radius of the explosion. None were warned by the US government ahead of time. Read more.
FROM OUR ARCHIVES
Why cost should not be an obstacle to compensating nuclear survivors
Trinity test Downwinders and others affected by nuclear weapons testing and production are lobbying for an expanded Radiation Exposure and Compensation Act. Two experts argue that the cost of such a program should not be a barrier to passage. Read more.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“In barely 200 years, we will have altered the Earth’s climate system so much that we are witnessing its impact on the very way Earth spins.”
— Surendra Adhikari, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, “Climate change is messing with time more than previously thought, scientists find,” CNN
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