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The U.S. hypocrisy about Israel’s nuclear weapons must stop
An extraordinary three-part series on Israeli television, The Atom and Me, lays out how the country got its nuclear weapons.
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A day without NOAA, a day without the National Weather Service?
What is your morning routine? Wake up, maybe make coffee, tea, or other morning beverage or meal, check the weather.
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The national missile defense fantasy—again
National missile defense advocates live in a world of magic and make-believe.
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Closer than ever: It is now 89 seconds to midnight
2025 Doomsday Clock Statement
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A failure to review America’s nuclear posture
President Joe Biden has passed on his best chance to operationalize his stated goal of reducing the role in US security policy of America’s more than 5,400 nuclear weapons with the public release on October 27 of the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR).
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At doom’s doorstep: It is 100 seconds to midnight
2022 Doomsday Clock Statement
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Coronavirus is an SOS: Mend our broken relationship with nature, says UN and WHO
Pandemics such as coronavirus are the result of humanity’s destruction of nature, according to leaders at the United Nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) International—and the world has been ignoring this stark reality for decades.
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Why is tear gas banned in war but not from peaceful protests?
In the midst of national protests against racism and police brutality, President Donald Trump on Monday walked a short distance from the White House to St. John’s Church. The visit was for a photo op in which Trump held up a bible as though it were a ticket he had just plucked from a raffle drum.
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Let evidence, not talk radio, determine whether the outbreak started in a lab
The president and his secretary of state made a startling claim last week: that there is enough evidence to suggest with a high degree of confidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology is the source of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
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How to explain climate change? With comic books
If you are reading this, you probably already know a lot about climate change. But what images come to mind if I asked you to visualize climate change?
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Declaring victory too soon: Lessons from Europe’s different responses to coronavirus
But do these assumptions hold up to the test? To find out, we must first take a quick look at some recent history.
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Trump, coronavirus, and climate change: using a pandemic to gut the EPA
Under the guise of protecting workers and the public from the coronavirus, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced two weeks ago that it will not issue fines against companies that violate certain water, air, and hazardous-waste-reporting requirements.
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Trump touts biodefense strategy but slashes funding to detect and combat outbreaks like coronavirus
t the end of January, at a time when the coronavirus outbreak that began in China was dominating international headlines, The White House announced it was forming a new task force to address the growing crisis, one headed by the secretary of health and human services, Alex Azar.
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Top US Army official: Build AI weapons first, then design safety
“We need to decide if we want to live in a world in which autonomous weapons systems identify and attack targets faster than humans can think.”
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Drone warfare: The death of precision
With Obama’s “precision ethos” behind us and the “Trump doctrine” ahead. Neither is perfect, but latter with the priority for percision gone, is much more dangerous.
