Breaking news Alexandrabel, the new president of the atomic scientist

At the end of January, DOOMSDAY CLOCK's keeper announced that the world is from 89 seconds to midnight. This is nearly one second we have than the past two years, and the closest clock has been involved in global destruction through human risks, such as nuclear weapons, climate change, and artificial intelligence.

A symbolic clock is set by the breaking news of an atomic scientist, an organization established by American physicists, a few months after the United States exploded a Japanese atomic bomb. On Monday, a breaking news named, Alexandra Bell, currently a nuclear problem, was named its new president and highest executive officer. She is replacing Rachel Bronson, who played a role for 10 years.

Bell has worked on the US Department of State's weapon management and non -diffusion issues, which began with the Obama administration, which was involved in the ratification of a new start, a nuclear weapon reduction treaty with Russia. She returned to the department as a deputy director in 2021 and promoted dialogue on nuclear issues with countries around the world. For the last two years of the Biden administration, she led the United States, China, and Russia's only forums, P5 processes, the United States.

In a last week's interview, Bell discussed the threat to evolving that day and the role she wanted to play a bulletin to prevent the world's disaster. “It's important to listen to the echo of history,” she said.

The next conversation is edited for concise and clarity.

How is 80 -year -old organizations like the breaking news related to the constantly changing world?

When I entered the field, the final clock was from 5 minutes to midnight. I remember being struck by the symbolic nature. The clock is now the closest point in the middle of the night is a warning that we are spending time. The fact that it was checked for nearly a second shows that every second is counted.

We overcome the overload of the crisis due to the complexity of threats. The important thing is to understand these threats and confirm that they are shifting to solutions. To deal with these concerns, you need work, patience and patience, and a wide range of demands from the general public.

Hopefully, the last clock will help people draw people and understand the urgency of the moment. There is no single solution. However, there are things that can be done to separate themselves from the end.

How is this nuclear risk different from the past?

The nuclear threat is the first time in vivid exhibitions, as the Cuba's Missile Crisis catastrophe in 1962 was separated. The United States and Russia are not a sustainable dialogue on how to stabilize nuclear risks. China has begun an unprecedented expansion of the nuclear army. Iran can make nuclear weapons, and North Korea continues to neglect international law, threatens neighbors, and continues to grow nuclear weapons.

There is also a structure that has currently collapsed under us for the past 50 years. The nuclear non -diffusion treaty that suppresses the tide of nuclear confusion is forced. As in the comprehensive nuclear testing treaty, the next steps we have taken to reduce nuclear threats have not yet passed.

People living in the peak of the Cold War are convinced that they did not think it was simple. But looking back, it was a bipolar dispute. It was the United States and the Soviet Union. It's more complicated now.

There is no simple correction here. This time, it is not only nuclear experts who came up with a solution. We must talk to AI, quantum, biotechnology, and climate change experts. These risk areas are duplicated and needed to be unmastered. However, the mutual pollination of that specialized knowledge is the key to managing these threats.

The threat to most recent people seems to be climate change, not nuclear weapons.

You are right, the young generation doesn't think about nuclear threats. We did a good job to reduce the threat, but it never disappeared. In some respects, it is getting worse. It is more complicated, spreading, and not so careful.

The nuclear problem is a few minutes. In the United States or Russian, intercontinental ballistic missiles can be reached anywhere in the world in about 33 minutes. If the nuclear problem is wrong, nothing else is important.

Climate change is a long -term problem. And potential conflicts that may occur from it can increase tension like massive movements. More nuclear armed states accompanied by climate -related disputes mean that the possibility of nuclear wars increases. These threats are tied. There is even more reasons for thinking about both at the same time.

So far, what do you think about the new presidential government?

He was pleased to see President Trump's comments on Davos about reducing nuclear threats. It was encouraging. But he has also withdrawn from the Paris Agreement. It is a step in the wrong direction.

Hopefully, the administration will know that the United States has economic and security benefits in pursuing more environmentally friendly technology.

I hope that climate change is not a matter of belief. This is happening. You can choose not to believe it, but I guarantee that your insurance company believes it. When it began to affect people nationwide financially, they are looking for their leaders to do something about it.

How do you want to form a breaking news job over the next few years?

Breaking news is trying to promote the calculation of the people with the existing risk of mankind. It's an increasingly exclusive conversation, and I don't want to do that. I want people to understand why this is so important and why they are involved.

I came from Tuxedo, North Carolina -a place without stoplights. The people's houses have rained 40 inches in two days from Hurricane Helen. The turmoil caused by climate changes is now occurring in a place like my hometown. How do you connect to conversations about preventing these people? It is our job to make sure they are as part of the Beltway people.

It is easy to go to a dark place after seeing these issues. The difficulty is that those tasks drive you. My mother is from Finland, and we always talk about the spirit of Finnish “SISU”. In this field, you need more SISU. We have to inherit confusion and cooperate to clean it.