Thomas Gaulkin

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Multimedia Editor at Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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Tracking Trump’s approach to existential threats

3 weeks ago | thebulletin.org | Thomas Gaulkin

November 14, 2024 Trump picks RFK Jr. to lead HHS President Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. The department and its subsidiary agencies research vaccines, license them for use, and recommend their uptake. Public health advocated worried that Kennedy would use his perch to discredit vaccines or reduce access to them.
Once seen as a symbolic protest, the nuclear ban treaty is growing teeth

1 month ago | thebulletin.org | Olamide Samuel |Thomas Gaulkin

Amid Russia’s war in Ukraine, nuclear saber-rattling, and the United States’ sudden turn away from its longtime transatlantic alliances, fears of nuclear conflict are leading European governments to pursue new ways of protecting themselves. Last month, European Union leaders approved a massive new militarization independent of US support; France is considering extending its own nuclear deterrent over the whole continent; and some countries have resurrected Cold War-style civil defense plans.
INTERVIEW: Staring into the DOGE abyss with WIRED’s Tim Marchman

1 month ago | thebulletin.org | Thomas Gaulkin

Since Donald Trump’s inauguration two months ago, Elon Musk and his associates at DOGE have purged whole government agencies of funding and jobs, falsely claimed billions of dollars of savings, and demanded that all federal workers justify their continued employment in an email. Many of these maneuvers have been challenged or reversed in federal court, but nearly every day new and unprecedented measures are announced that appear to threaten longstanding functions of the US government.
The new art of atomic critique

2 months ago | thebulletin.org | Thomas Gaulkin

The authoritative guide to ensuring science and technology make life on Earth better, not worse. Cara Despain’s 2022 installation Test of Faith, which combines uranium glassware with altered footage of nuclear tests, is an example of new art confronting the fraught legacies of the nuclear age.
Memos to Trump: Policy recommendations the new president might actually like

Jan 17, 2025 | thebulletin.org | John Mecklin |Thomas Gaulkin

Lisbeth GronlundModify the US policy of sole authority to launch nuclear weapons Mr. President, you should end the policy of placing the responsibility to launch nuclear weapons on one person—you and future presidents. The international community would welcome it.
The walls have eyes: How Trump plans to supercharge border security with tech

Jan 7, 2025 | thebulletin.org | Petra Molnar |Thomas Gaulkin

Graffiti adorns the border in Nogales, Mexico. Photo by Petra Molnar In December 2024, president-elect Donald J. Trump was named Time’s Person of the Year. Immigration ran like a current through his interview for the magazine, and Trump reiterated his goals again: “Whatever it takes to get them out. I don't care. Honestly, whatever it takes to get them out...
A rising danger in the Arctic: Microbes unleashed by climate change

Nov 21, 2024 | thebulletin.org | Valerie Brown |Thomas Gaulkin

Sunset on the Arctic horizon as captured in the Chukchi Sea during NASA’s 2011 study on Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment. Melt ponds like these that form on sea ice and permafrost are fast developing their own new microbiomes.
When Rome’s fountains run dry

Nov 16, 2024 | thebulletin.org | Gabriele Di Donfrancesco |Thomas Gaulkin |Left Matteo Nardone

In antiquity, Rome was known as Regina Aquarum, the “queen of the waters.” With its thousands of fountains, from the ever-flowing drinking taps referred to as “nasoni” to the hundreds of gushing marble statues, the city takes pride in its 24/7 show of liquid plenty. So when the Italian director Paolo Virzì showed the Tiber River completely dried up in his 2022 movie Siccità (Drought), it struck fear in the heart of Romans: One day, water might not be there.
An existential timeline of the Trump/Pence and Biden/Harris presidencies

Oct 22, 2024 | thebulletin.org | Thomas Gaulkin

Trump - Pence administration (2017-2021) LOREM IPSUM DOLOR The UN overwhelmingly adopts a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Largely dismissed by the United States and other countries possessing nuclear weapons, the ban treaty gains widespread attention after the leaders of the treaty effort receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their work.
Hibakusha group receives Nobel Peace Prize for “demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again”

Oct 16, 2024 | nuclear-news.net | François Diaz-Maurin |Thomas Gaulkin |Christina MacPherson

Hibakusha group receives Nobel Peace Prize for “demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again” Bulletin, By François Diaz-Maurin, Thomas Gaulkin | October 11, 2024 The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement formed by survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings and nuclear weapons testing (or Hibakusha), “for its efforts to achieve a world free of...

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Thomas Gaulkin @ThomasGaulkin

1 Mar 25

RT @meckdevil: I had a few comments on the Trump/Zelensky/Vance dustup. The confrontation seemed planned to me—especially Vance's finger-po…

Thomas Gaulkin @ThomasGaulkin

18 Feb 25

Lots to see (and hear) in this exhibition of works from the US, Germany, and Japan.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @BulletinAtomic

A new generation of artists is exploring depictions of nuclear injury and anxiety, incorporating multimedia sculpture, Indigenous totems, nuclear mascots—and taxidermized "super rats." "The new art of atomic critique," by Sean J Patrick Carney. https://t.co/z0ncTLajxE

Thomas Gaulkin @ThomasGaulkin

18 Feb 25

RT @meckdevil: An interesting essay on atomic art presented in an arresting way by the inimitable @ThomasGaulkin: The new art of atomic cri…