Happy last day of nuclear arms control to those who celebrate

Watch Nobel Peace Prize winner and journalist Maria Ressa talk about technology and disinformation at the Doomsday Clock announcement. "The operating system has been corrupted." @thebulletin.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulvU...

"When governments become unaccountable to their own citizens, conflict and misery follow." —Daniel Holz, Chair, Science and Security Board @thebulletin.org The Doomsday Clock is now at 85 seconds to midnight.

🚨 It is now 85 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT on the #DoomsdayClock, the closest it has ever been to midnight. Learn why here: thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...

Hell yeah love this

The @thebulletin.org asked three experts to peer into the future and say what they think the public health picture will look like in 10 years. Here's the tape: @erik-english.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QrU...

The latest issue of the @thebulletin.org digital magazine is a collection of winners from the Write Before Midnight fiction contest. The winners were selected by Kim Stanley Robinson, who declared a “seven-story tie” for first place. Highly recommended reading!

new video up on the youtube page youtu.be/N1DVvGlzGEs?...

Looks like another great time to revisit this interview with Daniel Immerwahr, the author of How to Hide an Empire. thebulletin.org/premium/2025...

It’s been a real tough day for CBS News overall, but I’ll still give them credit for this sequence of paragraphs. www.cbsnews.com/news/bear-un...

While home for Christmas, I learned our neighbor John Hertlein, the soybean farmer I interviewed in 2018 when Trump was making things hard for farmers the first time, recently passed. Grateful he was willing to sit down with the neighbors' curious journalist kid from NYC and tell me about his work

🚨 JUST IN: Routine reactor emissions pose no meaningful health risk to the US workers and population, @astein.bsky.social and PJ Seel argue in @thebulletin.org. #nuclearenergy #safety #nukesky

The headline should read: Federal Prosecutors Lied to Judge, According to Emails in Abrego Garcia Case

🚨 JUST IN: In a region already bristling with all types of nuclear weapons, bestowing latent nuclear-weapon-state status upon South Korea is needlessly destabilizing, writes Sharon Squassoni in @thebulletin.org. #SouthKorea #TrumpAdministration #submarines #nuclearweapons #nukesky

Don’t like that

“Overall, the trouble with the National Security Strategy document just released—and, really, all assertions that the administration has a strategy—is that they cannot account for President Trump’s mercurial nature and erratic behavior.” thebulletin.org/2025/12/a-na...

Sometimes rethinking the way you've been doing things for a long time is good. Other times, when the thing you're rethinking is 3+ decades of advice that has decreased incidence of a deadly liver-rotting disease by 99 percent, it's not so good. @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/12/a-cd...

🚨 JUST IN: The last agreement constraining US and Russian nuclear weapons expires in two months, and Putin has proposed to extend it. But it takes two to tango, Steven Pifer writes. #nuclearweapons #NewSTART #nukesky

Has this been posted yet

This story—based on months of research by a top investigative reporter—should be read by everyone interested in the nuclear industry, pro or con. thebulletin.org/2025/11/how-...

Filling out info for a new bank account has me wanting to throw my computer out a window.

Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead. Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines. Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context. I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.

🚨 JUST IN: Citizen activism and legislative pressures helped stop US nuclear weapon testing. They will be needed again to protect the moratorium against Trump's call for renewed testing, writes David Cortright. #Trump #nuclearweapons #nucleartests #nukesky

“Let this be a reminder: when they go low, we cave.” #NewYorkerCartoons @newyorker.com

Taxes on high earners are too low bsky.app/profile/popc...

Praising a medical breakthrough originally funded by (now-gutted) NIH funding. 🤡 $LLY $NVO

The ending of A House of Dynamite leaves many questions unanswered, intentionally. In reality, we won’t have that luxury. My colleague Isabelle Williams and I pick up where the movie ends, exploring what would unfold in the minutes, hours, and months after the missile hits Chicago.

Just your regular reminder that misinformed and confusing rants can have real consequences.

🚨 JUST IN: Despite being highly anticipated, the sudden change in public rhetoric about this year's "Zapad" strategic military exercise suggests that the Russia-Belarus relationship may be more complicated than it appears, write @gabrielairosa.bsky.social and @dexeve.bsky.social. #nuclearweapons

Happy #Godzilla day! If you find yourself watching the original 1954 version of Gojira, consider following it up with one of the 19 other nuclear films Rebecka Green, the host of the upcoming NukeTalk podcast, watched last month.

This is about as on-the-nose as it's possible to get without it being a Versailles, Romanovs, or Titanic themed party.

Allison Stanger talks about the similarities the US-tech company alliance has with the old, dark days of British colonialism. @erik-english.bsky.social @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/10/how-...

this is really bad

Seems like an appropriate time for this

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

🚨 JUST IN: To deflate Seoul's nuclear ambitions, Washington needs to make its commitment to South Korean security credible and demonstrate that it sees its ally as an equal partner, @jackkennedy.ie writes in his first piece for @thebulletin.org. #nuclearweapons #SouthKorea #Trump #ICE #nukesky

🚨 JUST IN: If President Trump's executive order results in a new public radiation exposure limit of around 10 rem—that opponents to the linear no-threshold (LNT) model for radiation exposure often advocate for—the increased health risks would be extraordinary. #nuclearsafety #Trump #nukesky

This is a great interview with Daniel Immerwahr that's currently free in @thebulletin.org "If you think that the appropriate way to seek power is to seize foreign lands, you quickly run into the problem of your neighbors doing the same thing."

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

"All of the events portrayed in A House of Dynamite could happen at any moment—today, even. And that's the point," writes @erik-english.bsky.social in his new review of "A House of Dynamite." ⬇️

And in case you're wondering why you should trust my insights on Bigelow's latest film, I would just like to mention that my dog is named after Swayze's character, Bodhi, from her classic film, Point Break.

Trump promised a health care plan TEN YEARS AGO and has never come up with one. Unless you consider it a "health care plan" when you cut health care and use the savings to give rich people a tax cut.

Nolan’s biopic of Oppenheimer and the creation of the bomb was obviously fantastic, but Bigelow’s realistic look at the modern nuclear situation is much scarier because it highlights how quickly everything can go wrong and how little people really think about it.

Good lord. @apnews.com

Conflating personal, work, and global anxieties is my superpower.