Thirty-second move forward reflects nuclear tensions, need for action on climate change

The first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction occurred on December 2, 1942 at the University of Chicago. Seventy-five years after the dawn of the Atomic Age, scholars illustrate the complex...Read more

Rachel Bronson, executive director and publisher of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, moderates a discussion on today’s nuclear landscape with Michael Morell, former acting director of the CIA; US Representative...Read more

Prof. Emeritus Robert Gomer, a chemical physicist who pioneered techniques for studying molecules and taught at the University of Chicago for nearly a half-century, died Dec. 12 of complications related...Read more

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists leaves Doomsday Clock unchanged, citing global nuclear tensions and climate change accord

Despite the ever-changing landscape of energy economics, subject to the influence of new technologies and geopolitics, a new tool promises to root discussions about the cost of nuclear energy in...Read more

Doomsday Clock ticks one minute closer to midnight

Faced with inadequate progress on nuclear weapons reduction and proliferation, and continuing inaction on climate change, the University of Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Jan. 10 that it...Read more

With the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima power plant still fueling the debate over nuclear power, energy experts from the University of Chicago gathered to discuss safety and the future...Read more

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is moving its headquarters to the Harris School of Public Policy Studies from its current downtown Chicago location as of Sept. 30. Always an...Read more