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We are poised to bend the arc of history toward a world free of nuclear weapons. For the first time since atomic bombs were dropped in 1945, leaders of nuclear weapons states are cooperating to vastly reduce their arsenals and secure all nuclear bomb-making material. And for the first time ever, industrialized and developing countries alike are pledging to limit climate-changing gas emissions that could render our planet nearly uninhabitable.

Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, was awarded the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama on August 12. Hawking was among 16 recipients of the award.

America's highest civilian honor, the medal recipients were chosen by Obama because of their remarkable achievements as "agents of change." The president added, "Each saw an imperfect world and set about improving it, often overcoming great obstacles along the way."

Steven Weinberg, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 and holder of the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin, has been named to the Board of Sponsors of the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, according to Sponsors co-chairs Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Arizona State University, and Leon Lederman, retired director of Fermilab and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988.

Joan Winstein, chief executive officer of Loan Strategies, Inc., has joined the governing board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, effective December 2008. She also consults for Financial Services Volunteer Corps, an arm of USAID that advises banks in developing countries to help them improve their lending outcomes.

Beginning in January 2009, Bulletin subscribers began receiving the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists magazine in its new digital format only. To save on the steeply rising costs of paper and postage, the Bulletin announced in late 2008 that it would no longer produce a print edition of the magazine.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is pleased to announce that our award-winning magazine is now available in digital format as well as print.

Reducing American dependency on nuclear weapons will lead to greater security for the United States and its allies and should be the driving force behind U.S. nuclear weapons policy.

Robert Finkel, founder and president of Prism Capital, has joined the Governing Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, effective July 2008.

Jonas Siegel was one of four expert panelists featured in Mother Jones's Blue Marble Blog discussion on the future of nuclear energy. Siegel is the editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and has written about issues relating to nuclear weapons and energy for the past five years.