bulletin of the atomic scientists

• Introduction

In 1947, THE BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS, a magazine founded by nuclear scientists based in Chicago who had worked on the first atomic bomb, created a Doomsday Clock to signal, in their view, how close the world had come to nuclear catastrophe. In 2006, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists still publishes and its editors still set the Doomsday Clock, whose minute hand has, over time, moved closer to or further away from midnight depending on their assessment of the current nuclear danger--for 2006, as in 1947, the clock stands at seven minutes to midnight. Here, Bee discusses various issues about the future of nuclear weapons, whether and how they might get used in anger, by design or by accident.

• Headline Series
• Nbr. 328/329, April 2006

• 'Doomsday Clock' Moves One Minute Away From Midnight

To: SCIENCE EDITORS Contact: Patrick Mitchell, +1-703-276-3266, pmitchell@hastingsgroup.com, for The Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists

• U.S. Newswire
• January 14, 2010

• Cyberwar is harder than it looks; the Internet's vulnerability to attacks has been exaggerated.

... writes in the January/February 2011 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. "There is a lot of redun...

• Reason
• Vol. 43 Nbr. 1, May 2011

• Doomsday Clock Closing in On Midnight

WASHINGTON - A group of scientists that tracks the likelihood of a global cataclysm says the world is moving closer to doomsday. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Tuesday that it has moved its "Doomsday Clock" to five minutes to midnight.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• January 11, 2012

• 'Doomsday Clock' Moves Two Minutes Closer to Midnight

To: FOREIGN EDITORS Contact: Patrick Mitchell, +1-703-276-3266, or pmitchell@hastingsgroup.com, for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

• U.S. Newswire
• January 17, 2007

• Magazines Mine Freelance Talent

Since 1 978, when I left what turned out to be my last newsroom staff writer job, I have relied on freelance assignments from magazines to earn the bulk of my living, or to supplement part-time salaries from IRE and the Missouri School of Journalism. Weinberg's partial reading list The Atlantic Audubon Bloomberg Markets BusinessWeek Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Chronicle of Higher Education Consumer Reports Fast Company Foreign Affairs Foreign Policy Fortune Governing Harper's In These Times Miller-McCune Mother jones The Nation National journal New York (and other city magazines occasionally) New York Review of Books New York Times Sunday Magazine The New Yorker OnEarth The Progressive New Republic Reason Rolling Stone Salon.com Scientific American Slate.com Texas Monthly Texas O...

• Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. The IRE Journal
• Vol. 32 Nbr. 3, July 2009

• Obama to Retain 'Safe' Capacity for Overkill

The United States and Russia, which together possess 95 percent of the world's nuclear weapons, announced this summer an agreement to someday reduce their nuclear arsenals by up to one-third. The proposed treaty could cut each state's long-range thermonuclear weapons -- known in military jargon as "strategic" weapons -- to between 1,500 and 1,675. Mainstream news reports said this was down from the limit of 2,200 slated to take effect in 2012. According to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the United States had 9,938 warheads in 2007 and is obligated under the 2002 Moscow Agreement to reduce this to 5,470 by the end of 2012.

• Buffalo News
• October 17, 2009

• The Hands of the Doomsday Clock

At 10 a.m. today, representatives of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will reset the symbolic Doomsday Clock to illustrate how close they feel the world is to nuclear and climate disaster. For the first time people will be able to follow the

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• February 18, 2010

• Population, Debt Clocks Express Trends with Little Accuracy

In zoos and museums, in New York's Times Square and online, apocalyptic numbers are ticking away. The national debt clock, revived after a two-year hiatus now that deficits are piling up again, may soon need a new digit to keep pace. An AIDS clock, run by the United Nations, records more than 40 million sufferers worldwide. Visitors to the Bronx Zoo and the Museum of Natural History can watch the global population race toward 7 billion as rain forest acreage dwindles. And the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock has inched two minutes closer to midnight during its six decades of operation.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• July 02, 2007

• Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, Delivers Remarks On Leadership and the Future of Nuclear Energy

... from the University of Chicago, from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, from Argonne National La...

• Political Transcript Wire
• October 11, 2011