Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 25, 2024
Posted: 26th April 2024
April 25, 2024
Extinction Rebellion stages a funeral procession at an ExxonMobil fuel terminal. (Matt Hrkac/Wikipedia)
KATE YODER
Could fossil fuel companies be charged with homicide?
A new legal theory suggests that oil companies could be taken to court for every kind of homicide in the United States, short of first-degree murder. Read more.
CHAD SMALL
How an obscure atmospheric phenomenon causes catastrophic flooding in California
Tulare, California once sat next to the largest lake west of the Mississippi River, but late 19th century diversions drained the lake dry. Last year, the region was inundated with rain, flooding over 100,000 acres. These rare floods always have the same culprit: atmospheric rivers. Read more.
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An update on the war in Ukraine
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MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
Lessons learned from Chernobyl
Tomorrow will mark 38 years since the start of the Chernobyl disaster. In 2011, former general secretary and executive president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev wrote for the Bulletin on the breakdown. Read more.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“A nuclear detonation in space today would damage or outright destroy a large portion of the thousands of satellites currently in orbit.”
— Jacob Knutson, “Russia vetoes UN resolution denouncing use of nuclear weapons in space,” Axios
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