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The decisions that leaders make today about artificial intelligence governance and research priorities could create paths ...

An eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb tests in the Marshall Islands, along with some remarkably prescient observations about what they could mean for future superpower rivalries.

We sometimes think of the great discovery of the 20th century as the splitting of the atom—and of course this month the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is marking 80 years of dealing with the ...

Whether a nuclear renaissance actually occurs in the coming decade or two depends on three fundamental questions: Are the new designs safer than their predecessors? Do the new designs lead to changes ...

(Article originally published in the August/September 1986 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 42, Issue 7 “Chernobyl: The Emerging Story,” pages ...

Humans are entering a post-documentation world. Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) threatens their ability to rely on audio recordings, photos, or even videos to prove or disprove facts ...

It’s July 2025. After a week of building tensions between Russia and the United States, following what seems to be a failed meeting between Trump and Putin in Anchorage, Donald Trump posts an oddly ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is little more than a decade older than the field of artificial intelligence, whose birth can arguably be traced back to the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on ...

Eighty years after the founding of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and 55 years after the first Earth Day, humanity faces a growing profusion of existential threats. Most people—including ...