How to protect elections and democracy in a critical year

October 21, 2024 - Posted by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The United States is approaching its election day on November 5. For the next month, the Bulletin's magazine issue on elections, democracy, and the information ecosystem will be available to all readers, including the below articles. Read more.

To protect democratic values, journalism must save itself

Sara Goudarzi

The United States is approaching its election day on November 5. For the next month, the Bulletin's magazine issue on elections, democracy, and the information ecosystem will be available to all readers, including the below articles. Read more.

Interview: Lawrence Norden on US election security

Dawn Stover

A deep dive into the nuts-and-bolts of election security, resiliency, ballots, and ballot-counting, and why it would be so hard to produce a false result. Among other things, 99% of polling places now have paper printouts of each electronic vote, offering hard physical evidence—a paper trail—in the event of an audit or a full-blown recount. That was not the case a decade or so ago. Read more.How to protect elections and democracy in a critical year

The United States is approaching its election day on November 5. For the next month, the Bulletin's magazine issue on elections, democracy, and the information ecosystem will be available to all readers, including the below articles. Read more.

Indian nuclear weapons, 2024

HANS M. KRISTENSEN, MATT KORDA, ELIANA JOHNS, MACKENZIE KNIGHT

In the most recent edition of the Nuclear Notebook, experts from the Federation of American Scientists estimate that India may have produced enough military plutonium for 130 to 210 nuclear warheads and the country’s warhead stockpile is likely growing. Read more.