Kennette Benedict

• '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

...Kennette Benedict, executive director, Bulletin of the Atom...

• U.S. Newswire
• January 14, 2010

• Silo Fire Casts Another Cloud Over U.S. Nukes

A fire in a Wyoming missile silo last spring exposed more problems in the oversight of the nation's nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile arsenal, but posed no threat of nuclear detonation or radiation release, Air Force Space Command said Thursday. The command, headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base, released an accident investigation report Thursday on the silo, which caused more than $1 million in damage. It had made no previous announcement of the incident.

... that's creeping into our military," said Kennette Benedict, publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic ...

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• November 17, 2008

• Can judges ignore inadmissible information? The difficulty of deliberately disregarding.

.... (248) See Jonathan D. Casper & Kennette M. Benedict, The Influence of Outcome Information ...

• University of Pennsylvania Law Review
• Vol. 153 Nbr. 4, March 2005

• 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.

... the urgency and fears of the scientists, Kennette Benedict, publisher of the bulletin, says. The clo...

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• July 02, 2007

• '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

...Kennette Benedict, executive director, Bulletin of the Atom...

• U.S. Newswire
• January 17, 2007

• 'Clock' Ticks Toward 'Doomsday'

LONDON -- The world is nudging closer to nuclear or environmental apocalypse, a group of prominent scientists warned Wednesday as it pushed the hand of its symbolic Doomsday Clock closer to midnight. The clock, which was set two minutes forward to 11:55, represents the likelihood of a global cataclysm. Its ticks have given the clock's keepers a chance to speak out on the dangers they see threatening Earth.

... as those posed by nuclear weapons," said Kennette Benedict, director of the bulletin. Stephen W. Haw...

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• January 18, 2007

• The costs and benefits of letting juries punish corporations: comment on Viscusi.

...Casper, Kennette Benedict & Jo L. Perry, Juror Decision Making, Att...

• Stanford Law Review
• Vol. 52 Nbr. 6, July 2000

• Doomsday Clock Advances 2 Minutes ; Blame Global Warming, Nuclear Threat

LONDON The world is nudging closer to nuclear or environmental apocalypse, a group of prominent scientists warned Wednesday as it pushed the hand of its symbolic Doomsday Clock closer to midnight. The clock, which was set two minutes forward to 11:55, represents the likelihood of a global cataclysm. Its ticks have given the clock's keepers a chance to speak out on the dangers they see threatening Earth.

... as those posed by nuclear weapons," said Kennette Benedict, director of the bulletin. Stephen W. Haw...

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• January 18, 2007