Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Here are a series of interesting articles both on nuclear matters and climate change.

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January 18, 2021

CLIMATE CHANGE

The president needs to hit the ground running on climate

We’ve already run out of time. At this point it’s a matter of limiting, rather than preventing, the damage, writes climatologist Michael E. Mann. Read this article from the subscription magazine free until January 20. Read more.​​​​

NUCLEAR RISK

A threat to confront: far-right extremists and nuclear terrorism

The far-right extremist nuclear terrorism threat is amplified today by an ideology focused on accelerating the collapse of society and a documented interest in pursuing nuclear terrorism. Read more.​​​

NUCLEAR RISK

Our advice to President-elect Biden: Break the dangerous pattern of nuclear competition with Russia

Former Governor of California Jerry Brown, former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry, and Stanford University professor David Holloway delivered this letter to President-elect Biden encouraging him to confront the “addictive and self-reinforcing quality of our current tit-for-tat relationship with Russia.” Read more.​​​​

NUCLEAR RISK

Global nuclear policy is stuck in colonialist thinking. The ban treaty offers a way out.

One significant benefit of the ban treaty is that it can help subvert a number of currently held assumptions within the mainstream nuclear policy, opening a pathway toward a new, post-colonial conception of security. Read more.​​​​

CLIMATE CHANGE

“Big batteries” boost renewables

As California steadily moves to decarbonize its economy, the Moss Landing Power Plant is about to begin a new life as the world’s largest battery. Could these “big batteries” address a key challenge for green energy—the intermittency of wind and solar? Read more.​​​

WHAT WE’RE TRACKING

Zoom Panel: Nuclear Ban Treaty and US Policies

Bulletin president and CEO Rachel Bronson will moderate a panel hosted by the Union of Concerned Scientists on the significance of the ban treaty entering into force, and what the United States can do to move toward nuclear weapons abolition. Learn more and register here.