Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists back issues from January 2001:
Predictions.(national security advice)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2001; ... LONG-TIME READERS OF THE BULLETIN WILL NO DOUBT RECOGNIZE that with this issue the magazine returns to the use of Sabon as its text font. Sabon was and is a real favorite--we would never have dropped it had a digital version been available when we shifted to electronic typesetting in 1989 ....
Letters.
Jan 01, 2001 ... A more even-handed Uncle Sam IN "SECRETS THAT MATTER" (NOVEMBER/ December 2000 Bulletin), author David Albright argues that "preventing the spread of information slows down programs aimed at getting [atomic bombs]." This is a laudable point, but Albright neglects ...
iViva Godzilla!(G-Fan reprints article about cooperative security and mutants)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001 ... G-Fan magazine, "the journal of giant Japanese monsters," has reprinted Janne Nolan's article "When Three Heads Are Better Than ... Three Heads" (July/August 2000 Bulletin). In the article, Nolan describes the 1964 movie Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster--in which Rodan, Godzilla, and ...
The Tireless Blues.(Great Britain recalls nuclear submarines for maintenance on reactors)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001 ... In "The Rock is a Hard Place" (November/December 2000), Michael Flynn reported that a British nuclear-powered attack sub, the HMS Tireless, has been stranded in Gibraltar since last May, when a leak was discovered in the sub's reactor. Despite widespread protests in Gibraltar and Spain, ...
Watch out below.(couple recalls honeymoon in bomb shelter)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Their shelter was designed to protect them from everything--except phone calls IN 1959, MELVIN AND Maria Mininson redefined the meaning of "honeymoon hideaway" by spending the first two weeks of their marriage in a fallout shelter. Forty-one years later, the Miami couple remain ...
The art of impending doom.(paintings of effects of nuclear war; Art Nuko; web site)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001; ... In 1976, Canadian artist Dr. Art Nuko--an alias--hatched the idea of a world tour of his paintings, each depicting one of the world's cities engulfed in a nuclear detonation. "If we are to avoid using nuclear weapons in the future," says the artist, "we must see the consequences of our ...
Jumping Jehosabots!(robots that jump)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001; ... THE NEXT STEP FORWARD in robotics is actually a hop. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed several robot prototypes that can jump up to 30 feet in the air, right themselves after landing, and go off to hop again. Using combustion power and a piston-driven ...
Greening the Red Planet.(plans to create greenhouse gases on Mars)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001; ... There seems to be renewed interest in terraforming Mars, even though the idea is "politically incorrect" by definition (the point is, after all, to mess with the environment rather than save it). In any case, the October 21 New Scientist included two reports on a meeting in ...
The fungus among us.(fungal infections in spacecraft)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Microbial stowaways have troubled space missions from the get-go. At first the concern was health--that astronauts might pick up some super moon-germ that would devastate Earth on their return. Now it turns out our spacecraft are threatened by microbes from Earth. Space programs ...
In Brief.(brief news about nuclear policies and research)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001 ... Tweet for tat When Indian Army border forces captured a hawk in Rajasthan in November, they claimed it had been outfitted with cameras, radar, and other eavesdropping devices by Pakistan (Gulf News, November 21, 2000). But Pakistani Rangers claimed it was the Indians who were ...
Whose Einstein?(National Atomic Museum uses Albert Einstein's image)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001; ... THE BULLETIN OF THE Atomic Scientists long ago adopted Albert Einstein as its patron saint, secular division. Einstein, a champion of the magazine's cause, helped the Bulletin greatly in its early years, mainly by lending his name to its money-raising efforts. Well, as it turns ...
Remember the Maine Yankee.(controversial plan for disposal of nuclear power plant waste)
Jan 01, 2001; ... WE'RE STANDING IN A COLD, QUIET CHAMBER IN THE emptying interior of the Maine Yankee Atomic Power Station. An armed guard is frisking Bill Oddell, plant operations director, in the next room. I'm waiting next to a piece of old machinery with bright yellow signs posted on it that read ...
In verification we trust.(political issues and questions about verification of nuclear arms under Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty)
Jan 01, 2001; ... CYNICS SAID IT WAS MONICA'S FAULT. Others pointed to the near-visceral loathing of some Republican senators for anything emerging from the Clinton White House. The academically inclined argued that the ascendancy of unilateralism in Congress was blocking everything from the payment of U.N ....
The Russian-Iranian connection.(Israel alleges that Russia controls Iran's nuclear power plant)
Jan 01, 2001; ... BRIG. GEN. AMOS GILAD IS A BRISK, assertive Israeli intelligence officer who made his career following the actions of Middle Eastern dictators such as Saddam Hussein and the late Hafez Assad. Since 1996, as head of the military intelligence division of research and analysis, General Gilad ...
Israel and India partner up.(India to purchase arms from Israel)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001; ... WHEN THREE INDIAN WARSHIPS SAILED, into Israel's Red Sea port of Eilat last March, it wasn't a signal of increasing tensions, but of friendship and evolving ties between the two countries. The frigate, tanker, and destroyer were on India's second naval goodwill mission to Israel. ...
Get a policy, please.(creation of nuclear weapons policy needed)
Jan 01, 2001; ... AN ELECTION YEAR IS THE LAST TIME ONE WOULD EXPECT A RATIONAL CONSENSUS ON POLICY TO emerge from Washington's fiercely partisan cadres of officials, ex-officials, politicians, pundits, and experts. But in the looking glass logic of nuclear weapons, it is somehow fitting that from the heat ...
Watch out for Space Command.
Jan 01, 2001; ... PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT WAS THE PRIME MOVER behind the creation of the United Nations. He told Congress, shortly before his death, that the new organization would "determine the fate of the United States--and of the world .... We shall have to take the responsibility for world ...
Trim Pentagon fat.(ways to reduce military spending)
Jan 01, 2001; ... SO, YOU SURVIVED THE BATTLE OF FLORIDA AND NOW IT'S TIME to make good on your promise to strengthen national defense. But you also have to pay for all the other items you promised--tax cuts, prescription drugs, improvements in education--stuff people actually care about. And those ...
Stay the course on Asia.(US need for concrete policies to maintain stability with Asia)
Jan 01, 2001; ... THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OFFERED A CHOICE BETWEEN Tweedledee and Tweedledum, according to Ralph Nader and the people who voted for him. But on East Asian questions the candidates' differences were significant: If George W. Bush is inaugurated on January 20 it might undermine peace ...
End the test ban limbo.(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001; ... AS THE FALLOUT FROM THE FLORIDA PRESIDENTIAL VOTE COUNT settles, you, Mr. President, should heed another tally: the number of nuclear test explosions worldwide. At the end of the twentieth century that total stands at 2,050--the United States responsible for 1,030. Without renewed ...
Review, revamp, rethink NMD.(national missile defense)
Jan 01, 2001; ... ONE OF THE MAJOR FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES YOU WILL FACE early in your presidency is whether and how to proceed with national missile defense (NMD). Given the technical problems and resulting delays in the current program, the issue for at least your first term is not whether and how to ...
Stop arming the world.(U.S.- sanctioned weapons trading)
Jan 01, 2001; ... ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS YOUR NEW ADMINISTRATION can do to promote security, human rights, and peace in this fractious world is to put the brakes on America's arms-sales addiction. In 1999, the last year for which full statistics are available, the United States was responsible for ...
Play nice with NATO.(defense policy)
Jan 01, 2001; ... WHAT SHOULD THE NEW ADMINISTRATION DO ABOUT NATO? Four issues stand out: NATO expansion, NATO-led military operations in the Balkans, future transatlantic burden sharing within the alliance, and missile defense. On all four, you, the next president, will have to make important decisions, ...
Commit to abolition.(ICBM nuclear warheads)
Jan 01, 2001; ... DEAR MR. PRESIDENT-ELECT: THE END OF THE COLD WAR HAS brought a great paradox. The risk that a political/military confrontation between Moscow and Washington might escalate into a global thermonuclear Armageddon has virtually vanished. But the possibility of some kind of nuclear ...
Meeting with the muj.(Pakistan - Islamic fundamentalist school)
Jan 01, 2001; ... LAST JUNE I VISITED JAMIA MANZOOR ul Islamiya, a radical religious school (madrisa) in Lahore, Pakistan. Pakistan is a poor country whose plight has been worsened by a series of corrupt regimes. In many rural areas free government schools are not available. By educating, clothing, housing, ...
A long season of discontent.(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Even as the Cerro Grande fire smoldered and burned, Los Alamos, the birthplace of nuclear weapons, was reeling from a series of traumatic blows. LAST MAY A "CONTROLLED BURN" BY the National Park Service in Bandelier National Monument in northern New Mexico got out of control ....
Where Her Majesty's weapons were.(Britain's nuclear weapons)
Jan 01, 2001; ... THE HISTORY OF THE WORLDWIDE deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons, revealed in the Bulletin ("Where They Were," November/December 1999, and "How Much Did Japan Know?" and "Iceland Melts," January/February 2000), generated a great deal of interest. But the United States was not the ...
Russia's blue water blues.(nuclear Navy deteriorating)
Jan 01, 2001; ... ON AUGUST 12, 2000, THE RUSSIAN NUCLEAR SUBMARINE Kursk sank with all hands lost. Since then the incident has been swirled in controversy. Did the Kursk collide with another submarine, as some in the Russian military claim, or was it an explosion onboard that sealed the boat's fate? Some ...
Trust but Verify: Imagery Analysis in the Cold War.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Trust but Verify: Imagery Analysis in the Cold War By David T. Lindgren Naval Institute Press, 2000 222 pages; $32.95 THE DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION OF overhead imagery systems--satellites and aircraft--to provide strategic intelligence during the Cold War began in secrecy. The ...
Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon By Patrick Tierney Norton, 2000 417 pages; $27.95 IN 1993, THEN-ENERGY SECRETARY Hazel O'Leary acknowledged that during the Cold War federal agencies conducted secret experiments on U.S. citizens. In ...
Correction.(September/October 2000 issue: article, "Polyakov's Run")(Correction Notice)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001 ... During the editing process, two errors were introduced into Raymond L. Garthoff's article, "Polyakov's Run" (September/October 2000 Bulletin). The article erroneously stated that in 1978 David Binder identified William Sullivan as the source for suspicion that Dmitri Polyakov fed ...
National security on the Web.(online material)
Jan 01, 2001; ... FOR RESEARCHERS WORKING IN NATIONAL security, nuclear weapons, and arms control, the Internet is an electronic embarrassment of riches. The Web surpasses all other media as a source for materials from government agencies, academics, nongovernmental organizations, special interest groups, ...
The silver lining.(Wen Ho Lee scandal)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001; ... AT A RECENT DARTMOUTH COLLEGE-SPONSORED panel on the Wen Ho Lee case, I was distressed to discover that many in the audience, which was made up mostly of Asian students, thought Lee--an admitted felon--was merely a target of racial profiling. Although this conclusion is understandable ...