Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a journal concerned with global security issues, especially related to the dangers posed nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. It was founded by many former Manhattan Project physicists in 1945 after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought the world into the nuclear age primarily to support the advocacy of international control of nuclear weapons and to provide a forum for the newly-empowered nuclear physicists to publish their views on nuclear policy.
The journal is published by The Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science (EFNS) which was incorporated as a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization in 1949.
The journal is well known for the Doomsday clock which has appeared on the cover of each issue since 1947 and counts down the "minutes to midnight" — man's proximity to nuclear war.
Contributors to the journal have included Albert Einstein, Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Carl Sagan, Leo Szilard, Wernher von Braun, Al Gore, Isaac Asimov, Joseph D. Schleimer, Arthur C. Clarke, and Linus Pauling, among many others.
External links
- The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (http://www.thebulletin.org) (online edition)