nuclear weapons
The 2026 Doomsday Clock is now reading 85 seconds to midnight, four seconds closer than last year’s record of 89 seconds. And, today is Downwinder Day.
Tomorrow at 8 a.m. (MST), the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will reveal the time on the dial of the 2026 Doomsday Clock live on the Bulletin‘s YouTube channel.
“This will undoubtedly trigger response by other countries that have nuclear weapons.” -Ira Helfand
Kathryn Bigelow, Oscar-winning director of “The Hurt Locker” and the acclaimed and controversial “Zero Dark Thirty,” two films about the darkness of modern battle, is now targeting a war she grew up with as a 73-year-old filmmaker: the Cold War and its nuclear legacy.
In April this year, Ira Helfand, co-founder of PSR and past president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), offered a chilling assessment to the audience gathered…
As we approach 80 years from the day the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, it is worth looking back at how a small group of determined activists in the US and the then-Soviet Union came together and fought successfully to end atmospheric testing.
Today, April 30, Dr. Helfand is speaking at the third preparatory meeting of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) at UN headquarters in New York City. The treaty is verified by the states involved in perpetuity but is reviewed every five years.
In the chaos that has accompanied the first agonizing days of the Trump Administration, one piece of humanitarian legislation among the hundreds he has quashed continues to be MIA, despite the numerous pleas by victims and lawmakers to bring it back to life: RECA, the 1990 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.
On Jan. 28, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will tell us what time it is, as recorded by the annual Doomsday Clock, the 78-year-old monitor of how close we are to a nuclear midnight.
This letter to the editor was written by Dr. Raymond Graap, cofounder, past executive director, and recent chair of the board of PSR Arizona. The letter appeared in the Dec. 22, 2024 edition of the Arizona Daily Star.