Siegfried S. Hecker
For two decades, Russian and American nuclear scientists cooperated to successfully avoid catastrophe. Can they do it again?
Seth Baum
Will the president-elect increase dangers to human civilization?
Laura Kahn
President-elect
Trump has the opportunity to make his country safer against biological
threats—if he focuses on these five things.
Joelien Pretorius, Polina Sinovets,
Mustafa Kibaroglu
Over
the objections of most nuclear-armed nations, a UN committee on
disarmament and security resoundingly approved a resolution in October
that would mandate negotiations toward a treaty outlawing nuclear
weapons. Will the pace of disarmament quicken if a new treaty is
negotiated that bans nuclear weapons outright? A new debate opens.
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Robert Alvarez
It appears that the Trump transition team has no clue about how all the elements of the Energy Department fit together.
Payam Mohseni
The
election of Donald Trump only reinforces the hardline rhetoric and
stance of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Iran
Revolutionary Guard Corps, who were critical of the nuclear agreement.
Lawrence Krauss, Chair of the Bulletin's Board of Sponsors, has been on fire the last few weeks, even more than usual. Krauss has been published in The New Yorker as well as the New York Times, writing about signs from the Trump transition team and various nominations that bode ill for US science and energy policy.
Dan Drollette Jr., Elisabeth Eaves
How the economic changes caused by the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy will affect world security
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