
John Mecklin
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Editor in Chief @BulletinAtomic. Ex-Miller-Mccune/PacifStandard, High Country News, SF Weekly. Email: [email protected] Tips: Signal to meckdevil.11
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Many great breakthroughs in medicine have their roots in work done at the 138-year-old National Institutes of Health. Now, it’s facing budget cuts of 35%. Former NIH director Monica Bertagnolli explains what the cuts mean, for science and the public. thebulletin.org/premium/2025-0…



“Missile defense is an old idea that has been proven not to work, and it’s not for lack of effort,” says Council board member Joe Cirincione in conversation with John Mecklin. thebulletin.org/2025/05/the-15…






The United States bombed three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday, an intervention that came just days after President Donald Trump suggested he would wait two weeks before deciding whether to take military action. Read more from John Mecklin below. thebulletin.org/2025/06/united…


🚨 Just in: Nuclear proliferation expert Ian Stewart talks to Bulletin EIC John Mecklin about what may be next with Iran's nuclear program. In Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists thebulletin.org/2025/06/the-15… #Iran #nuclearweapons #proliferation

The barn door is open. Iran has cleared the entrance to one of the tunnels at Isfahan, which Zachary Cohen reports was too deep to strike with MOPs. If Iran's stockpile of HEU was ever "buried" there, it isn't now.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists short fiction contest is a real opportunity for storytellers in all genres. So glad Kim Stanley Robinson agreed to help out as judge. thebulletin.org/write-before-m…


An honor, and a duty, to be selected as an Editorial Fellow covering biosecurity, for Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. thebulletin.org/2025/07/the-bu…

Hours before the keynote speaker at an AI conference was o take the stage, she was asked by organizers to remove some of her slides. thebulletin.org/2025/07/ai-for… Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists