In setting the Doomsday Clock, the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board consults widely with colleagues across a range of disciplines and considers qualitative and quantitative information from a ...

It has been 70 years since a group calling itself the “Atomic Scientists of Chicago” issued its first dispatch. At the start, the group consisted of a handful of veterans of the Manhattan Project, ...

The catastrophic accident in 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine was one of the worst man-made disasters of the twentieth century. Two and a half decades later, the nuclear accident ...

This is a free preview of a premium archival article published on April 12, 1948. Subscribe now to access our full archive here. "No one has the right to withdraw from the world of action at a time ...

IT IS possible that in the large light of history, if indeed there is to be history, the atomic bomb will appear not very different than in the bright light of the first atomic explosion. Partly ...

Trump's Golden Dome is likely to provide kindling for an arms race that will inevitably clash with his stated desire for ...

Celia McDowall is a Scoville fellow with the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

In 2024, Joseph Coates was preparing for death at age 37. His medical team had informed him that his rare blood disorder—which leads to kidney failure, numb limbs, and an enlarged heart—was ...

Maksim Markelov is a linguist and discourse analyst, an honorary research fellow at the University of Manchester, and an associate member of the (Mis)Translating Deceit project. His research explores ...

Rachel Kulikoff is a doctoral candidate in Health Services Organization and Policy and Political Science at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor researching the politics of public health data.