Cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists with the famous Doomsday Clock set at seven minutes to midnight.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a nontechnical magazine that covers global security and public policy issues, especially related to the dangers posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. It has been published continuously since 1945, when it was founded by former Manhattan Project physicists after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists of Chicago. The Bulletin's primary aim is to inform the public about nuclear policy debates while advocating for the international control of nuclear energy. Image File history File links Bulletin_Atomic_Scientists_Cover. ... Image File history File links Bulletin_Atomic_Scientists_Cover. ... The Doomsday Clock, at its current setting of seven minutes to Midnight. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ... Weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a term used to describe a munition with the capacity to indiscriminately kill large numbers of human beings. ... The Manhattan Project resulted in the development of the first nuclear weapons, and the first-ever nuclear detonation, at the Trinity test of July 16, 1945. ... Many famous physicists of the 20th and 21st century are found on the list of recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics. ... The Fat Man mushroom cloud resulting from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rises 18 km (11 mi, 60,000 ft) into the air from the hypocenter. ...

In 1949, the Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science incorporated as a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization to serve as the parent organization and fundraising mechanism of the Bulletin. In 2003, the Board of Directors voted to officially change the foundation's name to Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 501(c)(3) is a provision of the US tax code that provides exempt status, for Federal income tax purposes, for some non-profit organizations in the United States (see 26 U.S.C. Â§ 501(c)(3)). The term refers to: Section 501. ...

To convey the particular peril posed by nuclear weapons, the Bulletin devised the Doomsday Clock in 1947. The original setting was seven minutes to midnight. The minute hand of the Clock first moved closer to midnight in response to changing world events in 1949, following the first Soviet nuclear test. The Clock is now recognized as a universal symbol of the nuclear age. The Doomsday Clock, at its current setting of seven minutes to Midnight. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Soviet redirects here. ...

In the 1950s, the Bulletin was involved in the formation of Pugwash, an annual conference of scientists concerned about nuclear proliferation, and, more broadly, the role of science in modern society. Categories: Disambiguation ...

Contributors to the journal have included Dean Acheson, Herbert Aptheker, Raymond Aron, Isaac Asimov, Clement Attlee, Hans Bethe, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Vannevar Bush, Arthur C. Clarke, Freeman J. Dyson, Albert Einstein, Daniel Ellsberg, Albert Furtwangler, Clifford Geertz, Al Gore, Aldous Huxley, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Linus Pauling, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sagan, Joseph D. Schleimer, Leó Szilárd, Edward Teller, and Werner von Braun, among many others. Recent contributors have included Lorna Arnold, David Brin, Roberta Cohen, Alan Cranston, Bruce Cumings, Pervez Hoodbhoy, William D. Hartung, Chalmers Johnson, Michael T. Klare, Richard Lugar, Chris C. Mooney, Joseph Rotblat, and Jessica Stern. Dean Acheson Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was a United States Secretary of State under President Harry S. Truman. ... Herbert Aptheker Herbert Aptheker (July 31, 1915 - March 17, 2003) was an internationally known U.S. Marxist historian and political activist. ... Raymond Aron (March 14, 1905 — October 17, 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist. ... Isaac Asimov, Ph. ... Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, FRS, PC (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1945 to 1951. ... Hans Albrecht Bethe (pronounced bay-tuh; July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005), was a German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. ... Zbigniew Brzezinski Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (born March 28, 1928, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman. ... Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 – June 30, 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator, known for his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and idea of the memex—seen as a pioneering concept for the World Wide Web. ... Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (born December 16, 1917) is a British author and inventor, most famous for his science-fiction novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. ... Freeman Dyson at Harvard University in 2004 Freeman John Dyson (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American physicist and mathematician. ... Einstein redirects here. ... Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is a former American military analyst who precipitated a national uproar in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, the US militarys account of activities during the Vietnam War, to The New York Times. ... Clifford James Geertz (born August 23, 1926 in San Francisco) is an American anthropologist serving as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. ... |- ! Born | March 31, 1948 Washington, D.C. |} Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. ... Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was an English writer who emigrated to the United States, living in Los Angeles until his death in 1963. ... J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, served as the first director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, beginning in 1943. ... Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American quantum chemist and biochemist. ... Bertrand William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, and mathematician, working mostly in the 20th century. ... Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrobiologist, and highly successful science popularizer. ... Leó Szilárd (February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian-American physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction and worked on the Manhattan Project. ... Edward Teller in 1958 as Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. ... In May 1964, von Braun stands at his Marshall Space Flight Center desk in Huntsville, Alabama with models of rockets developed and in progress. ... A recent picture of David Brin. ... Alan MacGregor Cranston (June 19, 1914 – December 31, 2000) was a U.S. journalist and politician. ... Bruce Cumings is an historian, and professor at the University of Chicago, specializing in modern Korean history and contemporary international relations in East Asia. ... William D. Hartung is director of the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute. ... Chalmers Ashby Johnson is a professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. ... Prof. ... Richard Green Dick Lugar (born April 4, 1932) is the senior United States Senator from Indiana. ... Joseph Rotblats ID badge photo from Los Alamos. ...

The Bulletin sponsors the Leonard M. Rieser Fellowship in Science, Technology, and Global Security, which provides one-time awards of $2,500-$5,000 to undergraduate students seeking to explore the connections between science, technology, global security, and public policy.

The current Executive Director and Editor of The Bulletin are Kennette Benedict and Mark Strauss respectively. Mark Strauss is an American journalist. ...

The records of the Bulletin are kept at the Special Collections Research Center of the University of Chicago Library. The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ...

See also

• University of Chicago
• Franck Report
• Eugene Rabinowitch
• Kennette Benedict

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ... The Franck Report of June 1945, named for James Franck, recommended that the US either a) keep its atomic discoveries secret for an indefinite time, or b) develop nuclear armaments at such a pace that no other nation would think of attacking first from fear of overwhelming retaliation. ... Eugene Rabinowitch (1901-1973) was a Russian-American biophysicist who is best known for his work in relation to nuclear weapons, especially as a co-author of the Franck Report and a co-founder in 1945 of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a global security and public policy magazine...

External links

• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (online edition)
• Doomsday Clock
• University of Chicago Library Special Collections - Exhibit commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the world's first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.