Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
 

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Contents

Pugwash at 40
2
Pugwash movement
And Still Champion . .
4
United States Dept. of Defense (Appropriations and expenditures), Military research (International aspects), United States (Armed Forces, Appropriations and expenditures)
Russia's Weapons: from the Bizarre to the Bazaar
5
Defense industry (Russia (Federation)), Catalogs, Commercial (Russia (Federation)), Military weapons (Export-import trade), Soviet Union (Defenses)
After the Killing
9
Mayas, Rain forests (Guatemala), Deforestation, Guatemala (Politics and government), Peten (Guatemala) (Description and travel)
Angles and Loopholes
11
Federation of American Scientists, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (1996), Nuclear fusion, Neutron bombs
Who's Minding the Store?
32
United States Congress (105th: 1997-1998), United States Dept. of Energy, Nuclear weapons, United States (Military policy)
When Money Talks, Congress Listens
38
Lobbyists and lobbying, Aerospace industry (Federal aid), Military weapons (Export-import trade), Campaign funds
A Chinese Puzzle
42
Atomic bombs (History), Nuclear weapons (China), Espionage, American (History, China), China (Foreign relations, History, United States), United States (Foreign relations, History, China)
Potential, Not Proliferation
48
Nuclear weapons (East Asia), Nuclear nonproliferation
The swords of Armageddon (Book Review)
54

Treaty Tactics
13
United States Congress Senate, Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (1996)
Let's Reprocess the MOX Plan
15
Nuclear weapons (Deactivation), Reactor fuel reprocessing, Plutonium, Vitrification, Radioactive waste disposal (Russia (Federation))
Portrait of a Bad Idea
18
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (1972), Guided missiles (Defenses), Clinton-Yeltsin summit conference, 1997 (Helsinki, Finland)
After Helsinki, the Hard Work
26
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (1972), Clinton-Yeltsin summit conference, 1997 (Helsinki, Finland), Guided missiles (Defenses)
Nuclear rites (Book Review)
56
U.S. Nuclear Stockpile, July 1997
62
Nuclear weapons
Leave No Stone Unburned
64
Nuclear weapons (Handbooks, manuals, etc), Targeting (Nuclear strategy)

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