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An analysis of Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant responds to claims of an imminent 200-bomb threat, detailing technical realities of reactor-grade plutonium.

The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must ...

Sonja Amadae is the director of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge and a tenured political scientist at the University of Helsinki.

Tom Stevenson is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books.