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.

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 ...

Aidan G. Calvelli is a PhD candidate in Politics at Princeton University and a graduate of Harvard Law School. His writing on democracy has appeared in the Annual Review of Political Science, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

María de los Ángeles Orfila is the Bulletin‘s climate change editorial fellow. She is a science journalist from Uruguay whose work has appeared in Science, National Geographic, Live Science, Discover, ...