Egypt’s nuclear deal with Russia is risky: “Moscow may not seize control by force of the plant’s site like the Zaporizhzhia NPP in Ukraine or seize assets like the Finnish utility Fortum, but it may still leverage Cairo in other arenas where a direct quid pro quo is less evident”

In search of political diversification, Cairo has widened its exposure to debt risk while Russia builds one of the country’s most critical infrastructure assets, a $30-billion nuclear power plant on the Mediterranean. My latest analysis in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: thebulletin.org/2023/12/why-eg…

I'm SO glad I never had to learn English as a foreign language. This *looks* like nine consecutive nouns.

It can take 664 days to get a US visa in Nigeria, the largest state party to the TPNW nuclear ban treaty. The next big TPNW meeting in New York is in 438 days… You do the math. Or read Dr. Olamide Samuel Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the glaring inequities keeping key disarmament voices out.👇

How passport privilege undermines the nuclear ban treaty thebulletin.org/2023/12/how-pa…

From a history of the world's deadliest epidemics to the story of NASA’s mission to bring back samples from Mars, here are the Bulletin's best multimedia articles of 2023: bit.ly/488NBAD

Uncle Einstein and I recommend you read and share everything in this issue as soon as possible.

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Caught the moon double parking with my colander. #cosmicpasta #fsm

My latest with multimedia master Thomas Gaulkin… No debate: On existential threats, Biden, Trump, and CNN all largely failed thebulletin.org/2024/06/no-deb…

Donald Trump ☑️ Kamala Harris ☑️ TV ratings ☑️ Existential threats❔ Score the presidential debate like the fate of the world depends on it. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists thebulletin.org/2024/09/undeba…

.Thomas Gaulkin & John Mecklin filled in their existential risk debate scorecard. See how topics like nuclear war and the origins of COVID cropped up during last night's debate between Kamala Harris & Donald Trump. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists thebulletin.org/2024/09/no-cat…

🚨 Just in: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists editors compiled an existential timeline of highlights—and low-lights—of the Trump/Pence and Biden/Harris administrations. By Thomas Gaulkin François Diaz-Maurin - @francoisdm.bsky.social @jessimckenzi.bsky.social Sara Goudarzi Matt Field thebulletin.org/2024/10/an-exi… #USPresidentialElection

🚨 Just in: How the fog of war in Ukraine increases the risk of escalation By Stephen J. Cimbala and Lawrence J. Korb In Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists thebulletin.org/2024/10/how-th… #nuclearweapons #RussianUkrainianWar #drones #disinformation

So sorry, buddy. It’s ok. You can let it all go now. Tears in rain.

“Owning a social media platform...is a power trip—no question about it. But it’s not all that different than what Rupert Murdoch has available to him. Everyone wants to be Charles Foster Kane, and eventually they will all want their sled.”

🦟👀 and don’t miss the stuff-of-nightmares visuals Erik English included to enhance your Halloween-week reading Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

An interesting essay on atomic art presented in an arresting way by the inimitable Thomas Gaulkin: The new art of atomic critique thebulletin.org/2025/02/the-ne…

Lots to see (and hear) in this exhibition of works from the US, Germany, and Japan.

I had a few comments on the Trump/Zelensky/Vance dustup. The confrontation seemed planned to me—especially Vance's finger-pointing bit—but I welcome your thoughts. Trump’s Oval Office outburst with Zelensky, annotated thebulletin.org/2025/03/trumps…