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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Volume 76, Issue 6 (2020)

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Now, then, and the future: The Bulletin turns 75

Introduction

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An innovative and determined future for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
John Mecklin
Pages: 277-279
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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NOW AND NEXT…

Buckle up: We are in for a bumpy ride. An interview with Royal Astronomer Martin Rees
Rachel Bronson
Pages: 280-284
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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Nobel chemistry laureate Jennifer Doudna on the promise and peril of the genetic editing revolution
John Mecklin
Pages: 285-289
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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How a US defense secretary came to support the abolition of nuclear weapons
William J. Perry
Pages: 290-293
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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Contending with climate change: The next 25 years
Robert H. Socolow
Pages: 294-301
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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How to protect the world from ultra-targeted biological weapons
Filippa Lentzos
Pages: 302-308
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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Siegfried Hecker on remembering history while planning the future of nuclear arms control
John Mecklin
Pages: 309-314
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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The edge of our existence
Yangyang Cheng
Pages: 315-320
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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Science diplomacy: The essential interdisciplinary approach
Rose Gottemoeller
Pages: 321-324
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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Transforming our nuclear future with ridiculous ideas
Emma Belcher
Pages: 325-330
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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Facts and opinions about climate change
Richard C. J. Somerville
Pages: 331-335
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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Beatrice Fihn: How to implement the nuclear weapons ban treaty
John Mecklin
Pages: 336-340
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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...AND WAY BACK THEN

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1946: Can air or water be exploded?
H.A. Bethe
Pages: 341-343
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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1947: How the American people feel about the atomic bomb
Sylvia Eberhart
Pages: 344-349
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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1950: What the scientists are saying
Albert Einstein & Edward Teller
Pages: 350-352
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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1952: Ten years after
Eugene Rabinowitch
Pages: 353-355
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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1956: Science and our times
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Pages: 356-358
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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1958: Only world government can prevent the war nobody can win
Bertrand Russell
Pages: 359-362
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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1959: Science and art
Martyl Langsdorf & Cyril Stanley Smith
Pages: 363-365
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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1960: Science and party politics
Richard M. Nixon & John F. Kennedy
Pages: 366-370
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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1961: The neutron bomb
Freeman Dyson
Pages: 371-373
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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1975: All in our time: A foul and awesome display
Kenneth T. Bainbridge
Pages: 374-380
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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1978: Is mankind warming the Earth?
William W. Kellogg
Pages: 381-390
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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1992: What is to be done?
Arthur C. Clarke
Pages: 391-394
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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1992: Keep peace by pooling armies
Randall Forsberg
Pages: 395-396
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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1995: Hiroshima Memories: One sunny day, a young girl learned about darkness
Hideko Tamura Friedman
Pages: 397-403
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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2000: North Korea: No bygones at Yongbyon
Robert Alvarez
Pages: 404-409
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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2002: Nuclear gamblers
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Pages: 410-411
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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2004: City on fire
Lynn Eden
Pages: 412-422
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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2005: The bioterrorist cookbook
Malcolm Dando
Pages: 423-427
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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2011: Chernobyl 25 years later: Many lessons learned
Mikhail Gorbachev
Pages: 428-430
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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2012: An elemental force: Uranium production in Africa, and what it means to be nuclear
Gabrielle Hecht
Pages: 431-437
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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2016: Putin: The one-man show the West doesn’t understand
Fiona Hill
Pages: 438-442
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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Nuclear Notebook

Chinese nuclear forces, 2020
Hans M. Kristensen & Matt Korda
Pages: 443-457
Published online: 10 Dec 2020
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