Matthew Bunn
@matthew-bunn
Father, husband, citizen, professor, focusing mainly on nuclear weapons and nuclear energy issues. Faculty lead for Harvard's Managing the Atom project: www.belfercenter.org/programs/managing-atom My website: matthewbunn.scholars.harvard.edu
The cover of Foreign Affairs asks: “Who Will Win the Next War?” The question should be: “How Do We Avoid the Next War?”
Celebrating the 4th in Olympic National Park! A metaphor for America—the trees are majestic, but it’s the forest as a whole that endures, in a cooperative web of birth, growth, death, decay, and rebirth.
Our beloved cat Solomon passed aeay yesterday at the age of 17. He was a gentle soul. RIP.
Congratulations to all the Harvard Kennedy School graduates of 2026! Go forth and ask what you can do!
Call for papers for this year's Bobby Inman award recognizing outstanding student research and writing on intelligence-related topics. $5,000 prize, submissions due June 30. intelligencestudies.utexas.edu/inman-award/
Even after Congress passed science budgets and Trump signed them into law, the White House is delaying spending the money -- further damaging the U.S. S&T enterprise, slowing advances in health, and handing the tech lead to China. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A somber week, remembering the horrifying devastation wreaked by atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago -- the many tens of thousands killed, the far larger numbers terribly injured. We need to dedicate ourselves to ensuring that nuclear weapons are never again used in combat.
3/3 • U.S. citizen children deported without trial or proof: 3 (so far, 1 w/cancer deported w/o medicine) • Freedom of speech for visa and green card holders: crushed • Research driving future progress: paused, slashed • World’s leading research universities; assaulted Are we great yet?
"Most successful first 100 days in American history." (2/3) • Trade war: launched • U.S. allies: threatened, fearful • U.S. adversaries: heartened • Ceasefire in Gaza: broken, war raging • War in Ukraine: continuing • People imprisoned or deported without trial or proof: 100s
“Most successful first 100 days in American history.” (1/3) • Economic growth: down • Inflation expectations: up • Recession probability: up • Stock market: down • Functioning of government agencies: disrupted • Morale of government workers: down
Happy Easter! Pysanky made by a Ukrainian colleague and her daughter.