Wherein an impressive historian realizes an important truth about Trump while watching "Love Island." @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/premium/2025...

The United States needs a Peace Summit. Now. thebulletin.org/2025/09/afte...

Robert Pape, a professor at the University of Chicago, has been studying political violence for 30 years. There's one central factor, he says, that is responsible for the increasingly violent tenor of US politics today. ⬇️

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

I talked with political violence expert Robert Pape about how to stop violence from escalating. He told me about one (probably deceptively) simple solution. @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/09/afte...

A recent project asked what the telltale signs of a bioweapons program would be. There are gaps in the information members of the global bioweapons treaty can access, but new approaches and technologies can help. ⬇️

Good new article in @thebulletin.org by @filippalentzos.bsky.social @haileywingo.bsky.social Jez Littlewood & @albertomuti.bsky.social on options for verifying BWC: How new technology could make it easier to identify covert bioweapons programs thebulletin.org/2025/09/how-...

"SSPE is a brain disorder that typically develops anywhere from two to 10 years after the initial measles infection, according to county health officials — and after the patient appears to fully recover." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

My take on the bad takes on Charlie Kirk's death. @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/09/terr...

Who doesn't have time to read about bog bodies? thebulletin.org/2025/09/tick...

Google recently launched a new feature that allows users to customize their search experience by selecting preferred news sources. If you're looking to stay up to date with news and expert analysis on existential risks, it's easy to add the Bulletin as a preferred news publisher.

Read Leon Botstein's piece on Trump's disingenuous Trojan Horse-like assault on US universities, a sabotage of a big part of what's made this country great culturally and economically. @thebulletin.org @bardcollege.bsky.social thebulletin.org/premium/2025...

Kennedy on a media tear to make it seem like he’s got widespread support. The anti-vaxx movement has been very very good at using social media to appear huge, when it has in fact been a small but vocal and well-organized minority with opinions way outside the mainstream. Unclear whether it’ll work.

"Using proven vaccines—vaccines that have been used safely for decades in many cases—has been shown in scores of studies to prevent illness and save lives. So how many dead kids is the freedom not to be vaccinated worth?" — @mattyfield.bsky.social.

"Outbreaks of infectious diseases can kill people, particularly children. Using proven vaccines—vaccines that have been used safely for decades in many cases—has been shown in scores of studies to prevent illness and save lives. So how many dead kids is the freedom not to be vaccinated worth?"

Noted international relations thinker Graham Allison wonders what Trump will do the 80-80-9 formula (80 years without a world war, 80 without a nuclear war, and 9 nuclear states). @thebulletin.org @meckdevil.bsky.social thebulletin.org/premium/2025...

A powerful government official made news today for pursuing dangerous changes to vaccine policy (and it wasn't RFK Jr.). @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/09/in-a...

🚨 JUST IN: Latest issue of the Nuclear Notebook is out! 🇵🇰 Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2025. By @nukestrat.bsky.social, @mattkorda.bsky.social, @elianajjohns.bsky.social, and @mknight.bsky.social of @scientistsorg.bsky.social. thebulletin.org/premium/2025... #nuclearweapons #Pakistan #nukesky

Sec. Kennedy: Trump deserves a Nobel Prize for developing the deadly mRNA vaccine platform...🤷‍♂️

A powerful government official made news today for pursuing dangerous changes to vaccine policy (and it wasn't RFK Jr.). @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/09/in-a...

US nuclear plants need to be defended against the types of drone attacks that Ukraine has already suffered, and that China, North Korea, and Russia have threatened against their neighbors' plants. The lead for this effort should be the National Nuclear Security Administration, writes Henry Sokolski.

There's a crisis unfolding at the CDC. @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/08/cdc-...

It's worth remembering how things have ended in the past when people like RFK Jr. have been put in charge of health and science. @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2024/11/lyse...

Mass departure of senior CDC officials. Politically motivated firing of FEMA personnel. HHS determined to lie about vaccines and the diseases they prevent. We have entered a dangerous period for American health and security. The United States has never been more vulnerable to a biological attack.

The rare opinion piece about the contentious origin of COVID pandemic that will find most everyone interested in this question nodding in agreement--everyone, that is, outside of government officials and compliant scientists in China. thebulletin.org/2025/08/why-...

A clear-eyed look at how RFK Jr is undermining public health.

China, a scientific leader, is hoarding data & stalling further insight into the origins of COVID. "When it comes to the origins of SARS-CoV-2...this scientific capability, so evident elsewhere, has conspicuously vanished from view." @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/08/why-...

"Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most pressing health challenges facing Africa today, surpassing other major diseases in its impact...This makes AMR a greater killer than HIV/AIDS and malaria in many regions in Africa." thebulletin.org/2025/08/clim...

If US Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine views continue to be the basis for public health policy, communities should prepare for diseases that have been gone for decades to reemerge, writes Jennifer Herricks.

Is the "strangling angel" poised for a comeback? @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/08/the-...

Pandora Report 8.22.2025 This week's Pandora Report includes discussion of the twelfth anniversary of the sarin gas attack in the Ghouta district of Damascus, ODNI 2.0, avian influenza, new immunization guidance from ACOG and AAP, and more. pandorareport.org

A former tech advisor to Biden weighs in on the current moment of AI juiced digital surveillance & calls for a treating it like nuclear energy @thebulletin.org "The inferences and insights generated by these AI systems can be downright dangerous in the wrong hands." thebulletin.org/2025/08/how-...

@jessimckenzi.bsky.social took a walk through the devastation of a wildfire and eventually found a forest, in Greece, "as it should be." But keeping it that way, and stopping much of the world from regularly burning, will require more political will @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/08/a-pe...

A very readable piece on where things stand with Ukraine after Trump's meetings with Putin and Zelensky, written by a former US ambassador to Ukraine. @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/08/repa...

🚨 JUST IN: 80 years after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, Arjun Makhijani reflects on the nuclear road no taken. In @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/08/the-... #nuclearweapons #80thanniversary #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #nukesky

Trump wants to denuclearize. Here's what he should do. "By instituting a US two-person rule, Donald Trump will have single-handedly reduced the danger of nuclear war in this perilous 80th year of the nuclear age," @meckdevil.bsky.social writes. @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/08/dona...

This week, join our webinar on #MirrorBiology and its implications for global health, national security & more on these engineered lifeforms. Moderated by @wilmotjames.bsky.social w/ @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social & Dr. James Smith ( @jcvi.org ) Register ⤵️ brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

As a Senate staffer Bob Alvarez used his expert knowledge to put government officials on the hot seat over their abominable handling of nuclear waste. He had a long-career as an important thinker/writer on nuclear issues. @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/07/an-a...

"When societies or international diplomatic efforts fail to confront hateful ideologies or challenge violations of international law related to water, they normalize the denial of the most basic human need." thebulletin.org/2025/07/no-l...

Pandora Report 7.4.2025 This week's Pandora Report includes alumni news, H5N1 updates, discussion of the new BIOTech Caucus, new publications, and more. Wishing all Pandora Report readers a happy 4th of July! pandorareport.org

The House just voted to pass the one big beautiful bill without a moratorium that would prevent states from enforcing regulations/introducing new laws on AI systems for a decade. How will that affect the global AI race? thebulletin.org/2025/07/how-...

A sad loss for all of us. I am still editing a piece of him and another colleague. Unfortunately he won't be able to see the end result. Bob was dedicated to the Bulletin's mission until the end.

How the big, beautiful bill will make America less prepared for a pandemic. @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/07/fewe...

This is a very cool opportunity for writers of fiction. So happy Kim Stanley Robinson agreed to help out. thebulletin.org/write-before...

A funny thing for a bill that is all about extending tax breaks to do. www.kff.org/medicare/iss...

There are plenty of reasons to doubt that Iran's nuclear ambitions can be bombed away--especially when you consider Iran doesn't actually have to enrich more uranium for a bomb of its own. It likely has enough already.

Iran's stockpile of uranium, enriched at 60%, would be enough to make several relatively unsophisticated nuclear weapons. So why does nobody talk about it? "Iran can still build nuclear weapons without further enrichment. Only diplomacy will stop it," by @nucsafetyucs.bsky.social of @ucs.org. ⬇️

RFK Jr. recently published a children's health report with fake AI-created citations. Now his HHS is calling Nature journals "junk science," without citing any evidence. “Precious taxpayer dollars should be [sic] not be used on unused subscriptions to junk science.”