Richard F. Post (1918-2015) was a physicist and the head of the magnetic mirror program in controlled thermonuclear research at what was then the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, California ...
Founded by scientists and engineers of the Manhattan Project in the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has been alerting humanity to the ...
The Bulletin’s disruptive technology vertical tracks a wide variety of scientific and technological advances that could—either in the present or the future—pose an existential threat to humanity.