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Overview

Press Release

2013 Doomsday Clock Symposium

Overview

Do you think the hands of the Doomsday Clock should be closer to or farther from midnight?

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Volume 68 Issue 6

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Interview

What’s next for the NRC? A conversation with Allison Macfarlane

German nuclear exit issue

Germany’s merger of energy and climate change policy

The politics of phase-out

Exit economics: The relatively low cost of Germany’s nuclear phase-out

The legalities of a nuclear shutdown

The German nuclear exit: Introduction

Features

Weighing the risks of climate change mitigation strategies

The closest brush: How a UN secretary-general averted doomsday

Nuclear notebook

The Cuban Missile Crisis: A nuclear order of battle, October and November 1962