President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, his social media site, that he had instructed the Department of War (formerly the Defense Department)  to return to “nuclear testing” — although it’s ...

Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, A House of Dynamite, is a welcome and useful reminder that the dangers of nuclear weapons ...

North Korea has turned deception into strategy, weaponizing ambiguity to mask nuclear progress. Its success reveals how ...

A conversation among Kathryn Bigelow, director of the film "A House of Dynamite," Noah Oppenheim, who wrote the script for the movie, and Bulletin editor in chief John Mecklin. The film, which deals ...

Nuclear security specialist Sébastien Philippe, one of the 22 recipients of this year's prestigious MacArthur fellowship, ...

Allison Stanger explains how Big Tech CEOs became more powerful than some elected heads of state, and why citizens should be concerned about Big Tech’s ability to influence government policy.

The International Gene Synthesis Consortium (IGSC) is an industry-led group of gene synthesis companies and organizations formed to design and apply a common protocol to screen both the sequences of ...

Mark Goodman is a former senior scientist at the US State Department who specialized in nuclear policy—nuclear energy, nuclear nonproliferation, and disarmament—for 30 years. He is a non-resident ...

In 1978, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published a cover story titled “Is mankind warming the Earth?” The answer then, as now, was an “unqualified ‘yes.’” Between July 2023 and June 2024, the ...

Abi Olvera is the Bulletin‘s disruptive technologies editorial fellow. She is an Emergent Ventures-funded independent researcher and Affiliate at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy. Olvera ...

Daniel Hirsch (1950-2025) was a former director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and president of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, a ...

Margarita Kalinina-Pohl is a Senior Program Manager at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.