Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 11, 2024
Posted: 11th November 2024
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(Illustration by Thomas Gaulkin / klyona / valeo6 / depositphotos.com)FRANÇOIS DIAZ-MAURIN
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MATT FIELD
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MICHAEL E. MANN
Welcome to the American petrostateWith the reelection of Donald Trump, “the United States is now poised to become an authoritarian state ruled by plutocrats and fossil fuel interests. It is now, in short, a petrostate.” Read more.
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ROBERT ALVAREZ
The death of Karen Silkwood—and the plutonium economy
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“We’ve never really tried to mitigate climate change. So in that sense, we started by surrendering.”
— Wim Carton, Associate Professor of Sustainability Science at Lund University, Sweden, “Has the world ‘surrendered’ to climate change? These authors think so,” CBC
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