# John Mecklin

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John Mecklin - Editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

John Mecklin, editor-in-chief of the "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" #WPRO An editorial finds justification in the scientists' decision in January to move up its Doomsday Clock to 2 1/2 minutes to midnight. http://thebulletin.org/first-july-4-trump-era-declaration10877 The group was founded in…

A 21st century Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

In this talk, John Mecklin, the editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, discusses the famous Doomsday Clock set each January to reflect the world’s security situation. That event is covered by thousands of media outlets around the world, and today’s Bulletin is hardly your grandfa…

Nuclear Weapons Secrecy

Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists John Mecklin discusses the history of the Nuclear Notebook series and how civil society estimates of nuclear weapons help inform policymakers and the public.

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: ‘We don’t actually set the [Doomsday] clock based on your feelings’

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists celebrates its 75th anniversary today, and its editor-in-chief, John Mecklin, joins John Williams to tell him how close we are to Doomsday. https://serve.castfire.com/audio/3802621/3802621_2020-12-10-193821.64kmono.mp3

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: ‘We don’t actually set the [Doomsday] clock based on your feelings’

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists celebrates its 75th anniversary today, and its editor-in-chief, John Mecklin, joins John Williams to tell him how close we are to Doomsday. https://serve.castfire.com/audio/3802621/3802621_2020-12-10-193821.64kmono.mp3

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: ‘We don’t actually set the [Doomsday] clock based on your feelings’

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists celebrates its 75th anniversary today, and its editor-in-chief, John Mecklin, joins John Williams to tell him how close we are to Doomsday. https://serve.castfire.com/audio/3802621/3802621_2020-12-10-193821.64kmono.mp3

Nuclear Worries

The nuclear threat is back, and the Doomsday Clock is almost at midnight. How did we end up here again? In the 1930s, German physicists learned that splitting the nuclei of heavy atoms could release tremendous amounts of energy. Such theoretical ideas became relevant when WW II began.  Today, we tr…

Setting the Doomsday Clock w/John Mecklin

The news media is a pretty literal biz. It regularly reports on only two metaphors: One is what that groundhog does every February. The other is what the Doomsday Clock does every January.  The Doomsday Clock is that thing that has been ticking intermittently toward (and sometimes away from) midni…

BarbieHeimer - what the meme (and pop culture) teaches us about nuclear politics: Emily Faux

Send a text  Today we continue our ‘BarbieHeimer’  (or Barbenheimer) series, and are talking today about the meme itself. Is it appropriate to mash these two films together? Is this frivolity making light of the serious impacts of nuclear weapons and the need for a refocus on non-proliferation and …

Unscripted with John Mecklin

What does it really mean when the Doomsday Clock stands at 85 seconds to midnight? Are nuclear risk, climate pressure, AI disruption, and disinformation separate crises, or one connected global failure?And most importantly, who is actually accountable now? No panic, but no sugarcoating either, just…