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What We’re Reading is a new blog at the Bulletin featuring short posts about articles you’ll want to see. This week we look at the likelihood of follow-through on Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric, and how those concerned with existential threats can best respond during a Trump administration.
Ariel Conn
An
in-depth interview with meteorologist Alan Robock and physicist Brian
Toon, two of the seminal researchers in the field of nuclear winter.
Crusades of the clueless: Who will win the war on science?
Elisabeth Eaves
In this insightful book review of Shawn Otto's The War on Science: Who’s Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It, contributing editor Elisabeth Eaves examines historical examples of science denial followed by societal collapse. Free access from the November/December subscription journal.
How to reduce South Asia's nuclear dangers
Jayita Sarkar, Rabia Akhtar, Mario E. Carranza
Our excellent debate
on reducing South Asia’s nuclear dangers is closing. Find out what
measures are available to India, Pakistan, and outside nations that
might reduce the risk of a South Asian nuclear exchange.
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Trump said he'd tear up the Iran nuclear deal. Now what?
Ariane Tabatabai
A crucial role for civil servants and US allies in ensuring the survival of a historic nuclear agreement.
Gabrielle Tarini
This
month's Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference is a chance to
reinvigorate the aging treaty. Despite rapid scientific advances, the
BWC convention has been unable to provide a forum where crucial
contemporary debates about new developments—including gain-of-function
experiments, potential pandemic pathogens, and Crispr—can take place
internationally.
New BWC website
The 8th Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Review Conference is taking place in Geneva from November 7-25, 2016, and the Middle East Next Generation of Arms Control Specialists Network (MENACS)
has launched the BWC1972 website, the goal of which is to raise public
awareness of biological weapons threats and the importance of the BWC.
Finlay Greig
The Bulletin's Executive Director and Publisher Rachel Bronson discusses Donald Trump with iNews.
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