Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Friday, April 7, 2017

Friday, April 7, 2017

John Holdren, Sharon Burke, Alice Hill, & David Titley join expert commentary on Trump's climate Executive Order   Sharon Burke, Danny Cullenward, Alice Hill, John P. Holdren, Roger Pielke, Jr., Raymond Pierrehumbert, Steven W. Running, Richard Somerville, David Titley, Kevin Trenberth   President Donald Trump’s March 28 Executive Order on Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth is but the latest in a series of rollbacks intended to dismantle the Obama administration's climate change policies. Read the new commentaries on how those changes will affect everything from climate mitigation to national security.     Ban Brief   Tim Wright, Ray Acheson   Disagreements arose during the week of negotiations at UN headquarters, where over 130 countries gathered to discuss a nuclear weapons ban. But Tim Wright believes believes a treaty will be reached by July. Catch up on the week of negotiations, and be sure to read Ray Acheson's post on what will be in the ban.   More people are spending more time on our site than ever before. To continue to provide valuable information, and ensure we are there for decision makers when they call seeking expertise, we need your support more than ever.       Putting the nonproliferation back in the NPT   Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski   The Non-Proliferation Treaty needs our help to sustain its principal function—barring the way to more nuclear weapons countries—because it has been getting watered it down.     Let science be science again   Yangyang Cheng   In this new Voices of Tomorrow essay, a young particle physicist explains why she changed her mind about the March for Science.   Can Bill Gates rescue the Bioweapons Convention?   Gregory D. Koblentz, Paul F. Walker   The Bioweapons Convention and its implementation body are facing a severe budget crunch. A possible solution lives outside Seattle.   No end of a lesson on the "big stick"   Derek Leebaert   A critique of The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force, by Eliot A. Cohen.     The Bulletin supports the March for Science   April 22nd is not just Earth Day, it's the global March for Science. Find out how you can get involved.   CP-1: The experiment that changed the world   Derek Leebaert   To mark the 75th anniversary of CP-1, Bulletin executive director and publisher Rachel Bronson and Science and Security Board Chair Bob Rosner are participating in an event about the history of the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear chain reaction, nuclear energy, and its cultural impact. Friday, April 14th  5:00-6:30 PM, UChicagoGRAD at UChicago Bookstore, 3rd Floor (970 E. 58th St).   What We're Reading   Rachel Bronson, Lucien Crowder   Highly organized people may be able to survive a global pandemic, but what about those of us who are, um, less organized? And if you've been meaning to read Fiona Hill's 500-page profile of Vladimir Putin but haven't gotten to it yet, look no further. While you're at it, read about Michael Bierut, who designed the current Doomsday Clock, as he explains the journey during which his near-perfect Hillary 2016 logo went from panned to praised to past tense.

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