A Bulletin short fiction contest Announcing the Bulletin‘s new short fiction contest… Over the decades, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published the smartest minds in the fields it covers, ...

July 14-16 gathering to create recommendations for policymakers and leaders to reduce the threat of nuclear war ...

Setsuko Thurlow, who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, says we're walking through "a very dark time," ...

There are 12,000 nuclear weapons in the world, many of which are controlled by AI. We are close to a catastrophe.

When I asked John Savage, the retired co-founder of the Department of Computer Science at Brown University, what the ...

The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb, July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on ...

Amid rising global tensions with conflicts in Russia, Ukraine, and most recently Iran and Israel, social media has been ...

Indo-Pacific Studies Center (IPSC), a senior analyst at the National Institute for Deterrence Studies (NIDS), and the ...

This series of articles examines why today’s nuclear landscape is more complicated and, in many ways, more precarious than ...

Seventy years ago, on September 17, 1955, a modified Convair B-36 departed Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. Legendary U.S.

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

The American reaction to an attack is classified, but details made public paint a harrowing picture.