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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-...

There are many movies about the end of the world, but few are as accurate as House of Dynamite. Turns out ending the world is a roughly 20 minute proposition. @meckdevil.bsky.social talked to Kathryn Bigelow and Noah Oppenheim about their new film. @thebulletin.org

A vaccine that helps to fight cancer might already exist: People being treated for deadly cancers lived longer if they had received an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccines have this apparent life-extending effect not because they protect against COVID-19 but because they rev up the immune system.

As we warned in our 2024 op-ed, the dangerous clade I mpox strain spreading in DRC wouldn’t stay contained. Now, California confirms local clade I cases—with no travel links. Global inaction has local consequences. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

In @bmj.com , @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social warns decision to end $500m in #mRNA vaccine research in the US “turns its back on one of its greatest pandemic achievements.” mRNA tech could be key in the fight against future pandemics, cancer & HIV. If the US walks away, others must step up. More here ⤵️

Bulletin nuclear affairs editor François Diaz-Maurin @francoisdm.bsky.social spoke to Sébastien Philippe @sebphilippe.bsky.social on winning the MacArthur 'genius' grant, nuclear war, and academic freedom. ⬇️

The US is now more vulnerable to a biological attack of other serious disease emergency than it has been in a very long time. www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

Trump wants nuclear regulators to consider abandoning the idea that radiation exposure risks increase linearly--even slight exposures have risks. A new standard might allow exposure equivalent to 5K x-rays/year! Over 70 yrs, 4/5 people could get a cancer they wouldn't otherwise. @thebulletin.org

"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." ⬇️

Greetings from U.S. District Court Judge April Perry’s courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is present, waiting for the high stakes hearing to begin. @wttw.bsky.social

Honestly this is great policy. I can't wait for Walgreens to give ME money at the pharmacy.

This interview by @mattyfield.bsky.social, part of the Bulletin's September magazine, is available to all readers for a limited time.

Ok, wtf is this? "U.S. Border Patrol agents rappelled from Blackhawk military helicopters onto the roof of a South Shore apartment building" In the annals of militarizing a supposed "law enforcement" operation, this is above and beyond. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

NASA plans to decommission perfectly functioning satellites with climate monitoring missions, ostensibly to save money, @jessimckenzi.bsky.social reports. @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/09/nasa...

Call for Earth or climate scientists at US federal agencies from the Bulletin's climate editor, @jessimckenzi.bsky.social. Contact info in her profile. ⬇️

Must have been a couple busy weeks for the mainstream US media. Missed this one. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Some people are saying the US should counter nuclear threats by building thousands of weapons. But Putin offered this week to continue to adhere to limits of the New START treaty. Trump should take him up on that offer. @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/09/puti...

Harry Enten: "The more RFK Jr is trying to implement his policies, the further down his net approval rating goes. And at this particular point, 21 points underwater is not a place you want to be."

Telling assembled world leaders at the United Nations that their countries "are going to hell" and asking "what is the purpose of the UN" is probably not the best way for President Trump to start the process of earning buy-in for a bioweapons prevention plan, writes @mattyfield.bsky.social.

A technical standard has become the invisible infrastructure connecting AI to the rest of our digital world. But MCP wasn’t built for what it’s doing now and its widespread adoption introduces privacy and security challenges, writes Abi Olvera in a new piece for @thebulletin.org.

Join us this on Thursday! Stellar panel with @ucs.org's president, @gretchentg.bsky.social, and former science advisor to President Obama, John Holdren.

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-...