{"id":127533,"date":"2026-10-05T13:20:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=127533"},"modified":"2026-10-05T13:20:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:50:59","slug":"bulletin-of-the-atomic-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bulletin-of-the-atomic-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new assessment published by the regarded Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) says India continues to modernise and expand the systems that can deliver nuclear weapons, even as New Delhi maintains its long standing doctrine of no first use. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>independent, nonprofit organization <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that sought to <\/span><b>warn the public <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">about the <\/span><b>danger of nuclear weapons.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bulletin was <\/span><b>founded <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by a group called the <\/span><b>Atomic Scientists of Chicago<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><b>September 1945 at the University of Chicago.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>founding members<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and sponsors were <\/span><b>scientists who had contributed<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the <\/span><b>development of the first atomic bombs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as part of the <\/span><b>Manhattan Project<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>including <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">physicists <\/span><b>Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Eugene Rabinowitch.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bulletin focuses on three <\/span><b>main areas: nuclear risk, climate change<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>disruptive technologies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It pursues its goals through<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">media products, <\/span><b>starting in 1945 as a mimeographed newsletter, then a magazine,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>now <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as an <\/span><b>online publication.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, the <\/span><b>Bulletin\u2019s website, premium magazine, videos, iconic <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-doomsday-clock\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Doomsday Clock<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and regular events help advance actionable ideas to reduce existential threats.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Key Facts about Doomsday Clock<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To <\/span><b>convey <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the particular <\/span><b>peril posed by nuclear weapons,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>BAS devised<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Doomsday Clock in <\/span><b>1947<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>symbolic clock<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> adopted by atomic scientists to <\/span><b>show how close human beings <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are considered to be to a <\/span><b>global catastrophe,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with <\/span><b>midnight standing for annihilation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or \u201c<\/span><b>doomsday<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is recognized as a universal symbol of threats to humanity from a variety of sources: <\/span><b>nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, climate change, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span><b> disruptive technologies.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Doomsday Clock appeared on the Bulletin\u2019s first cover when it transitioned from a newsletter to a magazine.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>original setting <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was <\/span><b>seven minutes to midnight<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0 Since its invention in 1947, the clock has been reset 27 times.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>In January 2026 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the clock was <\/span><b>set to 85 seconds before midnight,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the closest it has ever been to doomsday.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/indias-nuclear-punch-atom-bombs-backed-by-long-range-missiles-12137029\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>NDTV<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is an independent, nonprofit organization that sought to warn the public about the danger of nuclear weapons. 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