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10 July 2013
Biosecurity
Americas

Zombie lessons

Laura H. Kahn

Watching the spread of a deadly pandemic like the one in World War Z can promote better public and animal health.

Agree to Disagree
8 July 2013
Middle East

Fundamental reassessments required

Martin B. Malin

My colleagues and I agree on two fundamental points: that it is desirable to initiate a process toward banning weapons of mass destruction from the Middle East and that such a process will be long and difficult.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
4 July 2013
Asia

Energy, women, and governance

Kalpana Sharma

The differences in opinion among participants in this Roundtable are modest. To the extent they exist, they probably correlate to differences among the authors' home countries.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
4 July 2013
AmericasEurope/Russia

Nuclear weapons will be with us for a while

Evgeny Buzhinsky

In her second essay, Manpreet Sethi discussed my assessment that eliminating nuclear weapons in the foreseeable future is unrealistic.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
4 July 2013
Asia

الطاقة النساء والحوكمة

Kalpana Sharma (AR)
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
4 July 2013
AmericasEurope/Russia

الأسلحة النووية باقية معنا لفترة

Evgeny Buzhinsky (AR)
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
4 July 2013
Asia

能源、妇女及治理

Kalpana Sharma (CH)
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
4 July 2013
AmericasEurope/Russia

告别核武器的时机尚未成熟

Evgeny Buzhinsky (CH)
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
4 July 2013
Asia

La energía, las mujeres y la gobernanza

Kalpana Sharma (ES)
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
4 July 2013
AmericasEurope/Russia

Las armas nucleares nos acompañarán durante un tiempo

Evgeny Buzhinsky (ES)
Columnists
1 July 2013
Nuclear Weapons
Europe/Russia

A case for unilateral US nuclear warhead reductions

Pavel Podvig

If America leads, Russia will likely follow.

Agree to Disagree
1 July 2013
Middle East

Security imperatives outweigh imported norms

Ehud Eiran

This debate about the initiative to establish a WMD-free zone in the Middle East is, it seems to me, characterized by two competing outlooks.

1 July 2013

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Volume 69 Issue 4

In June 2013, US President Barack Obama said that addressing climate change was a moral obligation. In this special issue of the Bulletin, experts offer new ideas to create a better world for future generations. 

1 July 2013
Americas
Interview

James Hansen: Taking heat for decades

Bulletin Staff

In this interview, outspoken climatologist James E. Hansen reflects on his 30-plus years of studying climate change and warning the public about its dangers. He talks about the most recent developments in climate science and the questions still to be answered.

Robert Jay Lifton

Lifton is a lecturer in psychiatry at Columbia University and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at The City University of New York.

Alfred Cavallo

Cavallo is an energy consultant based in Princeton, New Jersey, and formerly was a physicist with the US Department of Homeland Security.

1 July 2013
Middle East
The Climate Change Issue

Elephant in the room: How OPEC sets oil prices and limits carbon emissions

Alfred Cavallo

Despite a North American oil boom, non-OPEC crude oil production is not increasing, because new production roughly balances existing oil field decline. This situation allows OPEC, which has spare production capacity, to control the total global oil supply and therefore oil pricing.

Mark Z. Jacobson

Jacobson is a professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Atmosphere and Energy Program at Stanford University. He is also a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Precourt Institute for Energy, both at Stanford.

Mark A. Delucchi

Delucchi is a research scientist at the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis. He specializes in economic, environmental, engineering, and planning analyses of transportation systems and technologies.

1 July 2013
The Climate Change Issue

Meeting the world’s energy needs entirely with wind, water, and solar power

Mark A. DelucchiMark Z. Jacobson

The combustion of fossil fuels is largely responsible for the problems of climate change, air pollution, and energy insecurity.

Robert Gifford

Gifford is a professor in the Department of Psychology and the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria in Canada, where he is the founding director of the program in the Human Dimensions of Climate Change.

1 July 2013
The Climate Change Issue

Dragons, mules, and honeybees: Barriers, carriers, and unwitting enablers of climate change action

Robert Gifford

Why aren’t more people engaged in actions that would help mitigate climate change? The psychological “dragons of inaction” that impede green behaviors fall into seven “genera,” each with multiple “species” of barriers to pro-environmental behavior.

Jennifer A. Burney

Burney is an assistant professor at UC San Diego, where her research focuses on simultaneously achieving global food security and mitigating climate change.

Charles F. Kennel

Kennel was educated in astronomy and astrophysics at Harvard and Princeton and taught physics at UCLA for many years. He became the ninth director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Vice Chancellor and Dean of Marine Sciences at UC San Diego in 1998, stepping down in late 2006.

David G. Victor

Victor is a professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and director of the school's new Laboratory on International Law and Regulation.

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