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18 Sep 2025
A peace summit with #Trump, #Pritzker, and #Newsom? One expert's idea about how to quell political violence. #CharlieKirk #TylerRobinson thebulletin.org/2025/09/afte…
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18 Sep 2025
I talked with political violence expert Robert Pape about how to stop violence from escalating. He told me about one (probably deceptively) simple solution. @BulletinAtomic thebulletin.org/2025/09/afte…
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12 Sep 2025
My take on the bad takes on Charlie Kirk's death. @BulletinAtomic
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The role of the United States in global affairs is changing dramatically.
The September 2025 magazine issue of the Bulletin examines different facets of the NEW, new world order that Donald Trump has wrought in his second presidential term: buff.ly/lhHoHmJ
ALT Bulletin magazine cover with the title: "The NEW new world order." The photo-illustration shows Donald Trump walking, about to pump his fist and looking like he's dancing, on a chess board surrounded by knocked-over chess pieces.
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11 Jul 2025
As a Senate staffer Bob Alvarez used his expert knowledge to put government officials on the hot seat over their abominable handling of nuclear waste. He had a long-career as an important thinker/writer on nuclear issues.@BulletinAtomic thebulletin.org/2025/07/an-a…
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3 Jul 2025
A lot of focus on how the big, beautiful bill will lead to 12 million fewer people insured. That's bad enough. But how will this bill affect pandemic preparedness? @BulletinAtomic
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20 Mar 2025
Elon Musk's quest to colonize Mars could upend international cooperation and the establishment of space as a commons—a risk to Earthlings everywhere.
An illustrated essay by @FuSchmu and @ZachWeiner, based on their Hugo Award-winning "A City on Mars."
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🚨 Just in: Chinese nuclear weapons, 2025.
By @nukestrat @mattkorda
@elianajjohns @m_knight7 of @scientistsorg
In @BulletinAtomic
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#China #ballisticmissiles #nucleararsenals #nuclearweapons
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28 Jan 2025
Today, the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board sets the #DoomsdayClock at 89 seconds to midnight.
"The world depends on immediate action."
Read the full statement: thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo…
ALT White text and image on a black background. Text: "It is 89 seconds to midnight." Image: The Doomsday Clock, a logo of the top-left corner of an analog clock with the minute and hour hands close to midnight.
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28 Jan 2025
Find out what time it is in 17 minutes!
28 Jan 2025
The 2025 #DoomsdayClock announcement is today at 10:00am EST / 1500 GMT.
Watch the livestream on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, or our website below.
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In 2024, the Bulletin covered zombie pathogens emerging from a thawing Arctic, synthetic viruses, the pandemic that crippled ancient Rome, and more.
Here are some of last year's best biosecurity stories, selected by @MatthewField2.
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19 Dec 2024
Ahead of RFK Jr. possibly becoming health secretary, other anti-vaccine activists, at the state level, have already made a lot of progress on their agenda. @BulletinAtomic
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13 Dec 2024
Scientists urge halt to research on creating synthetic "mirror" bacteria that could evade human immunity, disrupt ecosystems.
Read the new article from @MatthewField2:
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13 Dec 2024
Organisms that don’t use the normal DNA of life on Earth, but instead "mirror image" DNA can be made.
Today 38 top scientists said that investigation into creating such “mirror life” should not be pursued. They "have become deeply concerned.”
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12 Dec 2024
Scientists urge halt to research on creating synthetic “mirror” bacteria that could evade human immunity, disrupt ecosystems thebulletin.org/2024/12/scie…
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11 Dec 2024
A mystery disease has sickened hundreds and killed dozens in Democratic Republic of Congo, yet it took more than a month for a report to be made to the World Health Organization.
Read more in the new article from @MatthewField2.
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27 Nov 2024
Faced with devastating famines, the USSR turned to Lysenko whose promises flew in the face of genetic science. Faced with a massive AIDS crisis, South Africa's Mbeki turned to those who denied HIV was a problem. Faced with COVID, H5N1, etc., the US may turn to RFK Jr.
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27 Nov 2024
Ship ballast, miners, beavers are some of the ways "pathogens could move into and out of the Arctic in multiple ways." As the Arctic warms and the permafrost melts, we'll need to pay more attention to the germs that emerge.
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