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Providing news on nuclear risk, climate change, and disruptive technologies. We set the Doomsday Clock. Receive updates: https://t.co/oxjCouH59r
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"American analysts focus on observable indicators and static assumptions, while North Korea manipulates visual evidence and creates ambiguity to gain time." Read more from Lauren Cho below. ⬇️ https://t.co/ZHNYdvezPF
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North Korea has turned deception into strategy, weaponizing ambiguity to mask nuclear progress. Its success reveals how bureaucratic inertia within US intelligence creates blind spots.
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This video and Stanger’s article, “The AI Raj: How tech giants are recolonizing power” are part of the AI Power Trip, a year-long Bulletin project examining how the developers of AI are gaining control of the world’s most critical systems. https://t.co/BOsaC91iof
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Just as the East India Company’s success justified new powers, AI firms seek to leverage technical prowess to assume public functions.
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New video: "Breaking down Big Tech’s colonial ambitions" with Allison Stanger, a political scientist at Middlebury College. ⬇️ https://t.co/QcM3ZZu7nE
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The fate of the planet ultimately rests on trust between adversaries & the mutual recognition that nuclear war is suicidal. https://t.co/305MjXcqbo
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A new thriller from director Kathryn Bigelow raises key questions about presidential authority, global security and nuclear deterrence as we sit on the brink of another world war.
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"The only real way to protect this country — and the world — from nuclear war is through fearless diplomacy," writes @JerryBrownGov, executive chair of the Bulletin's Governing Board, and Alexandra Bell, Bulletin president and CEO, for the @latimes.
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A new thriller from director Kathryn Bigelow raises key questions about presidential authority, global security and nuclear deterrence as we sit on the brink of another world war.
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@BardCollege This Bulletin magazine article is available to all readers for a limited time.
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US colleges and universities have until recently been the most admired and competitive in the world, writes Leon Botstein, president of @bardcollege. "Trump is in the process of dismantling American's competitive edge." https://t.co/LV5dwXKHMe
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From its immigration and deportation policies to its highly publicized assault on several of America’s leading universities, the Trump administration seems determined to upend decades of close...
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Former senior scientist at the US State Department, Mark Goodman, breaks down @netflix 's A House of Dynamite https://t.co/SrHOVdzWdf
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Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, A House of Dynamite, is a welcome and useful reminder that the dangers of nuclear weapons never went away—and an invitation to discuss how to deal with them.
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"While there's so many other problems everywhere in the world to deal with, if we get the nuclear problem wrong, nothing else matters," Bulletin president and CEO Alexandra Bell told the Chicago Sun-Times @Suntimes. Read more below. ⬇️ https://t.co/eClYiiNTSa
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Idris Elba and Chicago actor and playwright Tracy Letts are among those starring in the movie. A local expert on nuclear attacks said the film is “extremely accurate.”
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Tomorrow, @house_dynamite releases on @netflix. The film's director, Kathryn Bigelow, and screenwriter, Noah Oppenheim, spoke with Bulletin editor-in-chief John Mecklin @meckdevil about what will likely be the biggest nuclear film of the year. (Spoilers). https://t.co/jWiBOd8Afp
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A conversation among Kathryn Bigelow, director of the film "A House of Dynamite," Noah Oppenheim, who wrote the script for the movie, and Bulletin editor in chief John Mecklin. The film, which deals...
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"Science alone can’t do everything; it’s strongest in concert with other disciplines." 📰 Morning read: an interview with @macfound grant recipient, @seb6philippe in @BulletinAtomic, on what comes next & multidisciplinary collaboration. https://t.co/y7P2SWd8Hl
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Nuclear security specialist Sébastien Philippe, one of the 22 recipients of this year's prestigious MacArthur fellowship, explains the importance of bridging science, engineering, policy analysis,...
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@BardCollege This Bulletin magazine article is available to all readers for a limited time.
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Leon Botstein, president of @bardcollege, examines what the Trump admin could mean for the future of scientific research, education, and democracy in the United States—and calls for a renewed university and college system after the end of the Trump era. https://t.co/LV5dwXKHMe
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From its immigration and deportation policies to its highly publicized assault on several of America’s leading universities, the Trump administration seems determined to upend decades of close...
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Today, join the Bulletin for an expert discussion on the future of AI at 11:45 A.M. CT / 12:45 P.M. ET. ⬇️ https://t.co/0pa5inAJ97
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Bulletin nuclear affairs editor François Diaz-Maurin @francoisdm spoke to Sébastien Philippe @seb6philippe on winning the MacArthur 'genius' grant, nuclear war, and academic freedom. ⬇️ https://t.co/qN98U65YUu
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Nuclear security specialist Sébastien Philippe, one of the 22 recipients of this year's prestigious MacArthur fellowship, explains the importance of bridging science, engineering, policy analysis,...
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There are many ways AI could benefit individuals and society. But it also introduces new and powerful tools for financial, partisan, or geopolitical misuse. This Wednesday, join the Bulletin for an expert discussion on the future of AI.
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On October 22, join the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists for an expert discussion on whether AI will safeguard truth or diminish it further.
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If Trump's executive order results in a new public radiation exposure limit, the health risks "would be extraordinary [...] A 10-rem limit would increase allowed exposures to radiation by factors of 100 to 1000—and so would increase the risk of cancer." https://t.co/8Vw9hWeYld
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If President Trump's executive order results in a new public radiation exposure limit of around 10 rem—that opponents to the linear no-threshold (LNT) model for radiation exposure often advocate...
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@NorthwesternU This Bulletin magazine article is available to all readers for a limited time.
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How seriously should the world take the Trump administration's threats to annex the lands of other countries "one way or another?" Historian and @NorthwesternU professor Daniel Immerwahr gives his take. https://t.co/ZgB2SAiTwm
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How seriously should the world take the Trump administration's threats to annex the lands of other countries "one way or another?" The author of "How to Hide an Empire" says that while a land grab...
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