Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 9, 2024

Posted: 10th September 2024

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KEVIN KLYMAN, RAPHAEL PILIERO
AI and the A-bomb: What the analogy captures and misses

The nuclear analogy offers some lessons for mitigating the risks of AI, but the differences between the two technologies are significant. Read more.

TOM ARMBRUSTER
Project 2025’s stance on nuclear testing: A dangerous step back

“Project 2025 is proposing a resumption of testing. That should alarm every military service member, downwinder, Pacific Islander, and taxpayer,” writes the former US Ambassador to the Marshall Islands. Read more.

HANS M. KRISTENSEN, MATT KORDA, ELIANA JOHNS, MACKENZIE KNIGHT
Indian nuclear weapons, 2024

India continues to modernize its nuclear arsenal, with at least four new weapon systems and several new delivery platforms under development. Read the latest Nuclear Notebook entry from experts at the Federation of American Scientists. Read more.

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KILEY BENSE
More tornadoes are hitting the Northeast. The changing climate may be to blame

Even a tiny increase in the number of tornadoes in the Northeast and mid-South could correspond to a much greater potential for damage and loss of life because those regions have higher population densities compared to the Great Plains. Read more.

SYRIS VALENTINE
US states aren’t even close to taking full advantage of IRA tax credits for climate action

West Virginia and Louisiana have used less than one percent of potential federal funding, and at the other end of the spectrum, California has used just 11 percent. Read more.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“The formulation of principles and obligations in this convention is so overbroad and fraught with caveats that it raises serious questions about their legal certainty and effective enforceability.”

— Francesca Fanucci, a legal expert at the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law, US, Britain, EU to sign first international AI treaty, Reuters

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