A Bulletin short fiction contest Announcing the Bulletin‘s new short fiction contest… Over the decades, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published the smartest minds in the fields it covers, ...

July 14-16 gathering to create recommendations for policymakers and leaders to reduce the threat of nuclear war ...

Setsuko Thurlow, who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, says we're walking through "a very dark time," ...

The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb, July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on ...

Eliminating the potential for Iran to hide behind a temporary truce or interim agreement—only to then surprise the world with ...

When I asked John Savage, the retired co-founder of the Department of Computer Science at Brown University, what the ...

This series of articles examines why today’s nuclear landscape is more complicated and, in many ways, more precarious than ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

Seventy years ago, on September 17, 1955, a modified Convair B-36 departed Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. Legendary U.S.

The American reaction to an attack is classified, but details made public paint a harrowing picture.

Silver-110’s decay reveals a promising path to measure antineutrino mass. New data could reshape future neutrino studies.

Nearly 50 years ago, physicists floated a bold idea: our universe might be stuck in a false vacuum. This state feels stable, ...