Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists articles from April 1993

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists archives from April 1993

Apocalypse then. (nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union) (Editorial)
April 1, 1993... Some 10 years ago--March 8, 1983, in Orlando, Florida--President Ronald Reagan delivered a remarkable talk. Friends and foes alike quickly dubbed it the "Evil Empire" speech. Alexei Arbatov's comments on the prospects for the ratification of...

Pentagon clings to costly lifestyle. (defense budget)
April 1, 1993... Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, labored for more than half a year on a plan to save money by reducing duplication in the armed services. But if the project--challenging the power of the Pentagon baronies--was a mountain,...

For British eyes only? (1958-1961 moratorium on nuclear testing)
April 1, 1993... Ironically, Americans are discovering bits and pieces about the history of their nuclear weapons program not from U.S. sources, but from official British documents released under the 30-year rule (New Scientist, January 9, 1993). In January,...

No sleep in the deep for Russian subs. (nuclear submarines)
April 1, 1993... The Russians float retired naval nuclear reactors at dockside; Remodeling Russian research reactors would reduce uranium risk; Star Warriors' sights still set on hurricane-tossed Kauai In Western capitals and military circles, the fate of...

Retrofit Russian research reactors.
April 1, 1993... Only 25 kilograms of highly enriched uranium are required to produce a first generation gun-type bomb like that dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In his book, Adventures of a Physicist,...

STARS no star on Kauai. (Strategic Target System, part of Strategic Defense Initiative)
April 1, 1993... Still recovering from the destruction caused by Hurricane Iniki, the island of Kauai is now bracing for the first of a series of Star Wars rocket launches that are expected to start early this year. Kauai is home to the Pacific Missile Range...

Russia's nuclear elite on rampage. (development of nuclear power program) (Column)
April 1, 1993... In July 1992 the Russian Ministry of Nuclear Industry (Minatom) began pressing the Russian government to adopt an ambitious plan to build new nuclear power plants. On December 24, the government endorsed the program, which includes completing...

START II, red ink, and Boris Yeltsin. (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) (Cover Story)
April 1, 1993... Yeltsin's political opponents will call the new treaty an expensiven sellout--are they right? If someone had set out to disrupt Russia's fragile political truce following the December 1992 Congress of Peoples' Deputies, it would be...

Team B: the trillion dollar experiment. (committee formed to evaluate military needs in 1970s) (includes related article)
April 1, 1993... Two experts report on how a group of Cold War true believers were invited to second-guess the CIA. Did the "outside experts" of the 1970s contribute to the military buildup of the 1980s? Election years have much in common. They produce a...

South Africa: the ANC and the atom bomb. (African National Congress)
April 1, 1993... The South African government wants to sell its weapon-grade uranium before black majority rule begins. As South Africa moves toward black-majority rule, the African National Congress (ANC) wants the country's white government to come clean...

Chemicals destruction: the work begins. (Chemical Weapons Convention treaty) (includes related articles)
April 1, 1993... By mid-February, 137 nations had signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which had been in preparation for decades. The French hosted the signing shindig in Paris, where the rhetoric flowed as freely as the champagne. Now that the party...

The Once and Future Superpower.
April 1, 1993... The new war Joseph Romm, author of The Once and Future Superpower, is surely a happier man now than when he wrote this book. It was written, after all, in the shadow of the long Reagan/Bush suzerainty, when "national security" was defined...

On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site.
April 1, 1993... The mythical Hanford The Hamford plutonium factory in Washington State is among the oldest and largest relics of the Cold War, and aside from the nuclear test sites in Nevada and the South Pacific, easily the dirtiest. In the introduction...

Russian/Soviet weapons secrets revealed. (museum dedicated to nuclear weapons)
April 1, 1993... Russia's Ministry of Atomic Energy has opened a museum at the Arzamas-16 nuclear weapon design laboratory (the Los Alamos of the Soviet Union), with an exhibit on some early weapons. This exhibit and recent articles in the Russian press...

Known nuclear tests worldwide, 1945 to December 31, 1992.
April 1, 1993... Eight tests were conducted in 1992, six by the United States and two by China. None of the other three declared nuclear weapons states tested. It is possible that there will be no tests in 1993. The United States has no new warhead programs...