The Doomsday Clock is an internationally recognized design that conveys how close we are to destroying our civilization with dangerous technologies of our own making. First and foremost among these are nuclear weapons, but the dangers include climate-changing technologies, emerging... Read More
As people seek to contain rising carbon levels, they may derive increasing amounts of energy from biomass. But land is a finite resource. Food insecurity is already severe in many poor countries.
A nuclear detonation's aftermath would be ghastly. Mitigating the humanitarian disaster would stretch the resources of any nation. But what would a detonation mean for countries that struggle merely to feed their people?
Though US nuclear policy seeks "to reduce the salience of nuclear weapons," it doesn't exclude their use against states that help terrorists obtain weapons of mass destruction.
In the developing world, women and their families often struggle because they lack access to modern energy. Women's days are taken up with menial tasks; children quit school because they can't study at night; everyone's health suffers.
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For decades, arms control experts have envisioned a world in which ordinary people could verify treaty compliance. With the emergence of smartphones and social networks, this world may be ready to materialize. But are developing nations ready for citizen verification?
In June 2013, Obama announced his nuclear arms policy goals, asserting his support for a one-third reduction in deployed US strategic nuclear weapons and for “bold” cuts in US and Russian tactical weapons in Europe.
Don't miss the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' three-part series on nuclear power in the November/December 2012 issue, the January/February 2013 issue, and the March/April 2013 issue. The Bulletin gathers some of the world's top nuclear energy experts for this special series to answer the question: Just how easy would it be to unplug from nuclear?
In 2009, US President Obama delivered his first foreign policy speech in Prague, Czech Republic. During this speech, he announced his commitment to a world without nuclear weapons.
This video was created by KQED in San Francisco upon the opening of the Exploratorium in 1969. Republished with permission from KQED and the Exploratorium.
