Dawn Stover

By Dawn Stover | December 24, 2025 This year’s contributors to the Bulletin’s “Voices of Tomorrow” section, which features essays and opinion pieces by rising experts, focused heavily on the threats posed by nuclear weapons. We also published a few pieces... See more

In the final frames of Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear thriller A House of Dynamite , nothing explodes. The intercontinental ballistic missile has not made impact, the countdown is almost over, and the screen simply fades to black. No flash. No fire. No mushroo... See more

By Lauren Cho | October 27, 2025 In the summer of 2017, the United States learned a humbling lesson. For years, American intelligence agencies had assessed that North Korea would need several more years—until 2020 or even 2022—before it could field a miss... See more

On May 2, 2011, a US Navy SEAL helicopter soft-crashed into the side of Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Within the hour, bin Laden was identified and assassinated . The world’s most wanted terrorist had lived in Pakistan for years, les... See more