In 2024, the Doomsday Clock remains at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest the Clock has ever been to midnight. This reflects the continued state of unprecedented danger the world faces. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, stewards of the Doomsday Clock, emphasized in their announcement that the Clock can be turned back, but governments and people need to take urgent action.| Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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It’s been eight decades since the Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and, a few days later, on Nagasaki, Japan.| Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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It is 89 seconds to midnight.| Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Government data is a vast resource that everyone relies on, whether they know it or not. Experts are worried about the future of this resource.| Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Bulletin's multimedia editors are proud to be human. And the content we generate comes from our own weird minds. So here are some of our favorite stories we worked on in 2024—from our minds to your eyes.| Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Editor's note: This article was originally published in 2019. We are republishing it as a public service on this 75th anniversary of the Trinity test. For| Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The combination of a lack of Russian situational awareness, dangerously short warning times, high-readiness alert postures, and the increasing US strike capacity resulting from a new fuzing system for submarine-based nuclear missiles has created a deeply destabilizing and dangerous strategic nuclear situation.| Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
How many people really died because of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings? It’s complicated. There are at least two credible answers.| Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
It is 89 seconds to midnight.| Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists