Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists articles from December 1993

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists archives from December 1993

Trust me. (Boris Yeltsin's philosophy of the presidential role is similar to that of Abraham Lincoln) (Editorial)
December 1, 1993... In this issue, Leonid Zagalsky, a Russian-trained journalist whose byline often appears in the Bulletin, conveys the anguish he felt in early October, as the showdown between Boris Yeltsin and the Russian parliament came to a bloody climax. I...

China bucks ban with bang. (nuclear test)
December 1, 1993... Just 12 days after losing its high-profile bid to host the year 2000 Olympic games, on October 5 China conducted an underground nuclear test at the Lop Nur test site in northwest China. It was the first nuclear test by any nation since...

Startup is cleanup, says Energy. (Department of Energy, Hanford Nuclear Reservation)
December 1, 1993... The 42-year-old plutonium finishing plant (PFP) at the infamous Hanford Nuclear Reservation in eastern Washington State was put on "stand-by" in 1989 after reports of numerous safety violations. At a September public hearing in Seattle, Energy...

What North Korea wants. (political aspects of confrontation over nuclear inspection)
December 1, 1993... In the last two years I have visited North Korea twice at the invitation of the Korean Workers' Party and twice as a consultant to the United Nations on environmental concerns in the North. My visit in October was the fourth time that I had an...

Did nukes nudge the PLO? (the Palestinian Liberation Organization's recognition of Israel may have been influenced by Israel's nuclear capability)
December 1, 1993... In recent years, one political order after another has collapsed. Since World War II, political structures that constituted the "natural order of things" have been destroyed, transcended, or transformed--made into new realities almost...

Strengthening the world policeman. (U.S. participation in peacekeeping efforts)
December 1, 1993... On October 14, 1993, the Senate defeated an amendment by Arizona Republican John McCain that would have yanked U.S. troops out of the U.N. peacekeeping operation in Somalia. New Jersey Democrat Bill Bradley--an internationalist and firm...

The guns of October. (the seizure of the Russian Parliament) (Cover Story)
December 1, 1993... For a few days in early October 1993, Russia teetered at the brink of civil war. Blood was spilled and hundreds of people were hurt in Moscow, most of them after Boris Yeltsin issued Order No. 1400 to seize Parliament headquarters. The official...

Ancient enmities, modern guns. (weapons from the former Warsaw Pact armories are being used in Eastern European conflicts) (includes related article on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty)
December 1, 1993... Endless ink has been spilled on the dangers that could be posed by "loose nukes" from the former Soviet republics. Meanwhile, many thousands of conventional weapons from the bulging inventories of the old Warsaw Pact have been migrating to...

Engineer for hire. (Bruno Stemmler)
December 1, 1993... For more than two years, my colleague Mark Hibbs and I have written articles for the Bulletin about the secret Iraqi nuclear program. Using sources on four continents, we have pieced together a complex mosaic showing how Iraqi oil money was...

Clintonizing science policy. (President Clinton's scientific research agenda)
December 1, 1993... Many Americans expect the end of the Cold War to usher in a major shift in U.S. research priorities. At the peak of the Reagan buildup in 1986, defense-related research and development (R&D) consumed 69 percent of the total federal R&D effort,...

Sleuthing from home. (Verification Technology Information Center)
December 1, 1993... In October 5, 1993, China conducted an underground nuclear explosion at the Lop Nur nuclear test site. It was 3 a.m. British Summer Time in London (0200 Greenwich Mean Time). Three hours later, the Verification Technology Information Center...

A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World.
December 1, 1993... Those of us who would like to rid the world of nuclear weapons--and that includes many men and women long connected with the Bulletin--are surely sons and daughters of the Enlightenment, true believers in the idea that human beings are inclined...

China's Environmental Crisis.
December 1, 1993... Economists and analysts more and more frequently portray China as an economic superpower in the making. Its economy is considered to be as large as Japan's although it is poorer per capita. If its economy keeps growing for the next 20 years as...

Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety About the Atom.
December 1, 1993... In a May 1985 review for the Bulletin, I took the authors of a history of the nuclear age to task for a conclusion that was depressing and fatalistic, and for failing to take heart over the citizen campaigns on nuclear weapons and nuclear power...