Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists articles from March 1994

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists archives from March 1994

Paint a vision of the possible. (science policy) (Column)
March 1, 1994... The late Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) symbolized many things. To high-energy physicists, it was a dream machine that would help them untangle some of the lingering mysteries of matter, energy, space, and time. But to many other...

The "soft kill" solution. (non-lethal weapons)
March 1, 1994... Even if the Pentagon's secret new "non-lethal" weapons eventually turn out to be accidentally lethal or pre-lethal (used to incapacitate the enemy before a slaughter), the Defense Department still thinks that these super-secret weapons-National...

Scrapping the rules. (military bases break rules on selling recyclables)
March 1, 1994... It seemed like a perfect "carrot" at the time. Hoping to lure military installations into aggressive recycling, Congress passed a law in 1982 letting bases sell recyclables and use the profits for recreation. The catch? Cast-offs must have been...

A penny for your dumas. (problems of democrats in Russia) (Column)
March 1, 1994... Bill Clinton came to Moscow in the middle of January, with little money and a lot of questions. But Russians have changed a lot recently. Now you have to pay them for answers. They treat every Western offer - even of aid - as a matter of...

Purchasing power. (U.S. assistance program for nuclear disarmament in former Soviet republics)
March 1, 1994... Several treaties reducing nuclear risk were signed at the Moscow summit in January, but the centerpiece of U.S. efforts to help the former Soviet Union denuclearize and demilitarize remains the Nunn-Lugar assistance program, which was initiated...

Skittish on counterproliferation. (North Atlantic Treat Organization disagreements on nuclear counterproliferation)
March 1, 1994... The United States wants its allies to join in a "counterproliferation" effort. However, NATO members, who were skeptical of Star Wars, are not sure they want take part - militarily or financially - in a U.S. plan to develop ballistic missile...

Another Cold War casualty. (Morton Halperin withdraws nomination for assistant secretary of defense for democracy and peacekeeping)
March 1, 1994... Morton Halperin's nomination to be assistant secretary of defense for democracy and peacekeeping came under heavy hire last year. On October 29, Bob Smith, a Republican senator from New Hampshire, labeled Halperin "an extreme radical whose...

It's not son of Star Wars. (theater missile defense initiative)
March 1, 1994... The late and unlamented Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), which was centered around space-based ballistic missile Interceptors, constituted a frontal assault on the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty of 1972. The arms control community...

Energy enters guilty plea. (Energy Dept. admits it conducted human experiments)(includes related articles on ethical issues and profiles of experiment subjects) (Cover Story)
March 1, 1994... The shaft of light Hazel O'Leary has shone into the darkness of the nuclear establishment's human experiments has revealed a reality as awesome as the first secret, blinding flash of the atomic explosion in the New Mexico desert on July 16,...

Sarajevo stories. (daily life in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
March 1, 1994... Ten years ago Yugoslavia was the site of the Winter Olympic Games. Seven venues for sports as diverse as figure skating and downhill skiing lay within 13 miles of the center of Sarajevo, the mountain-ringed headquarters for the games....

Arming for peace. (reducing demand for weapons systems)(includes related information on proposed 11-step program)
March 1, 1994... Preventing wider proliferation of nuclear weapon's beyond the aging Club of Five seems newly urgent these days. The U.N. Security Council has learned how much the Nuclear Noon-proliferation Treaty (NPT) has leaked - at the banks of the...

Nuclear nonsense, black-market bombs, and fissile flim-flam: three undercover Russian journalists break into the black market for nuclear materials.
March 1, 1994... There is one more piece, but nobody wants to take it. Too much hassle. We've been sitting on it for six months already," Nikolai said as he swung open the rusted door of an old garage. Tripping over things and swearing under his breath at the...

Toward a nuclear-weapon-free world: a Chinese perspective.
March 1, 1994... An international treaty banning nuclear weapons tests is important, but a no-first-use agreement would be just as useful. Westerners often say they are puzzled by China's nuclear policies. They need not be. China has not said a lot over the...

Ultimate Security: How Environmental Concerns Affect Global Political Stability.
March 1, 1994... The end of the Cold War has brought about enormous changes in the political, economic, military, and social alliances of the last half century. Simultaneously, a set of global environmental problems has led to broadening concern for the future...

Peace Politics.
March 1, 1994... Five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, attempts to define post-Cold War politics continue to founder. For U.S. policy-makers, the new world order looks very much like the old. Military force remains the preferred means of addressing...

Gendering War Talk.
March 1, 1994... Voices from the fields of literature, film, drama, philosophy, history, and the social sciences are represented in Gendering War Talk. In the multidisciplinary and cross-cultural tradition of feminist theory, a variety of contributors present a...

Russian (C.I.S.) strategic nuclear forces: end of 1993.
March 1, 1994... Strategic nuclear forces in the former Soviet republics have decreased slightly from a year ago. Former Soviet ICBMS remain in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and, of course, Russia. Ukraine's ICBM base at Khmelnitski is home to 90 SS-19s....

The sky-is-still-falling profession. (nuclear weapons advocates and opponents sensationalize nuclear issue) (Column)
March 1, 1994... On the eve of President Bill Clinton's January trip to Moscow, Sen. Sam, Nunn passed on the rumor in the Washington Post that Ukraine was "feverishly working" to gain control of Russian nuclear missiles on its territory by cracking the launch...