Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Friday, November 11, 2016

Friday, November 11, 2016

What We're Reading 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.   Nuclear winter: Listen to an interview with Alan Robock and Brian Toon   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.   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.   New Voices of Tomorrow essay: Keeping the Biological Weapons Convention relevant   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.     How Donald Trump could affect the Doomsday Clock   Finlay Greig   The Bulletin's Executive Director and Publisher Rachel Bronson discusses Donald Trump with iNews.   No time to waste   Visits to the Bulletin's website were 350 percent higher on Nov 9, the day after the US presidential election, than the normal daily average. Interview requests and inquiries about the impact on our Doomsday Clock have spiked as well.   Members of our Science and Security board will have more to say about the effect of the president-elect's public statements on climate change and nuclear issues--but this much is clear. We need your increased support to meet the escalating demands of the coming weeks. DONATE NOW   Please stand with us now by making a contribution of any size to help us meet the need for facts, clear-eyed analysis, and expert assessments from around the world.   The 2016 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Annual Dinner is sold out! For more information, please call 773.702.6308.   The Nuclear Roundup is now at the Bulletin   Jodi Lieberman Sign up to receive Jodi Lieberman's Nuclear Roundup. Discover why so many readers find this daily summary of nuclear-related news simply indispensable. About the Bulletin   For more than 70 years the Bulletin has engaged science leaders, policy makers, and the interested public on topics of nuclear weapons and disarmament, the changing energy landscape, climate change, and emerging technologies.

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