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From: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists <newsletter@...>
Date: Thu, 26 Sept 2024, 15:31
Subject: Editorial highlights: AI hype, pandemic history, and more
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Nuclear questions for US presidential candidates | More

Read a shareable version of this newsletter?. Was this email forwarded to you?? to stay current. ? September 26, 2024 ? Illustration by Erik English under license from vectoratu / Denis Voronin? Bulletin editorial highlights This week, the Bulletin is holding strategic planning meetings. While we reflect on the past and look forward to the future, we wanted to share some of our favorite articles. Stay tuned for more highlights in Monday's newsletter. JOHN MECKLIN For the Bulletin's?July 2023 Magazine, editor-in-chief John Mecklin went to Hollywood and interviewed Christopher Nolan about his then-upcoming film, Oppenheimer.? ERIK ENGLISH Human history?is riddled with grizzly stories of epidemics. Bulletin?associate multimedia editor Erik English took a visual approach to the history of human epidemics in this illustrated timeline.? FRAN?OIS DIAZ-MAURIN The Bulletin's nuclear affairs?editor, Fran?ois Diaz-Maurin, wrote a guide on what to expect during, and after, a nuclear war. The results aren't pretty.? SARA GOUDARZI Bulletin disruptive technologies editor Sara Goudarzi wrote an article differentiating?chatbots from?AI as a whole,?showing that a better understanding of how they work (and the human labor and data involved)?can better help evaluate?concerns about them.? ? ? ? On November 12th, the Bulletin’s annual gathering will be held in Chicago.?? Occurring one week after the US election, our keynote conversation will feature David Ignatius, award-winning Washington Post columnist whose new book Phantom Orbit focuses on growing conflicts in space. ??? ? ? ? ? FRAN?OIS DIAZ-MAURIN, JOHN MECKLIN The Bulletin asked nuclear policy experts to suggest questions that journalists and citizens should ask the 2024 presidential candidates. Read more of the submissions below, and stay tuned for further entries. TOM Z. COLLINA Tom Z. Collina, a national security expert and former director of policy at the Ploughshares Fund, proposes a single, central question about nuclear weapons that journalists and citizens should ask the 2024 presidential candidates.? ELIANA JOHNS Eliana Johns, senior research associate at the Federation of American Scientists and co-author of the Bulletin’s Nuclear Notebook, proposes four nuclear questions about the US arsenal, nuclear testing, use of nuclear weapons, and North Korea that journalists and citizens should ask the 2024 presidential candidates.? QUOTE OF THE DAY ???? "The US showed at Vogtle that we’re not very good at building [nuclear]?plants...” — Todd Allen, chair of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences at University of Michigan,??Wired ? ? Your gift fuels our mission to educate and empower. Together we will work to ensure science serves humanity. ? ? ? ? ?? ? ?? ? ?? ? ?? ? ?? ? Copyright ? 2024?Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists All Rights Reserved | Email: newsletter@... Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Don't miss an email! Please add newsletter@... to your address book. ? ?