Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists articles from November 1994

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists archives from November 1994

Revisionism, revised. (Smithsonian Institution exhibit on 'Enola Gay') (Column)
November 1, 1994... For years, veterans had been after the Smithsonian Institution to display the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, which had been kept in storage. But when at last the Smithsonian's National Air...

Clearing the air in Minneapolis. (army tests of zinc cadmium sulfide in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1953)
November 1, 1994... The public began learning about the army's germ warfare testing in the late 1970s, but new surprises keep bobbing up. For instance, documents obtained in 1994 suggest that tens of millions of Americans may have inhaled the army's test agents....

These homeless guys have guns and tanks. (Russian troops withdrawn from Germany and the Baltics) (Column)
November 1, 1994... Fifty years ago Soviet troops entered Europe. In the month of September, the last of them left. By a strange trick of fate, these were now Russian troops, not Soviet. The payoff to the Soviets for helping win World War II was the privilege...

O'Leary v. Deutch. (Hazel O'Leary, John Deutch; nuclear weapons policy)
November 1, 1994... In July the Los Angeles Times obtained a secret letter to Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary from Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch expressing concern that the Energy Department's budget "does not provide sufficient resources to maintain the...

A dump called Rocky Flats. (problems with nuclear waste storage at Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant)
November 1, 1994... Workers conducting a routine inventory last April noticed a deformed lid on one of the stainless steel cans that hold plutonium at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Colorado. They immediately notified managers at the plant, which is...

Selin on safety. (Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman Ivan Selin; nuclear reactor safety) (Interview)
November 1, 1994... Ivan Selin, who has chaired the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission since July 1, 1991, came to the NRC with a background as a defense systems analyst and management consultant. For two years early in the Bush administration he served as...

Give more to get more. (extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty)(Stand and Be Counted)
November 1, 1994... The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) turns 25 in March, and its life expectancy after that is uncertain. The NPT Review and Extension Conference, mandated by Article X of the treaty, will be held at the United Nations in New York from...

A treaty for all time. (extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty)(Stand and Be Counted)
November 1, 1994... You may have heard the apocryphal story of the young man who climbs a distant mountain to seek advice from the revered old wise man who renounced vast riches and celebrity. When he asks the wise man what he should do he is told only, "My son,...

No hydronuclear ban. (extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty)(Stand and Be Counted)
November 1, 1994... Just how "comprehensive" should the comprehensive test ban treaty be? Among the many controversial issues negotiators are wrestling with at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva is the question: Should the test ban prohibity hydronuclear...

Plutonium, politics, and panic. (1994 plutonium smuggling scare in Germany)(includes related information) (Cover Story)
November 1, 1994... Five-forty-five p.m., August 10, 1994, Franz-Josef-Strauss Airport. Lufthansa flight 3369 is completing a three-point landing at the end of its daily three-hour flight from Moscow to Munich. On the ground, vehicles specially outfitted for...

NATO: use only in moderation. (future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
November 1, 1994... Precisely five years ago, the Berlin Wall was joyfully dismantled, revealing that the long-awaited Soviet juggernaut had rusted. Red Army tanks were not going to pour through the Fulda Gap--and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization had lost...

The smiling chameleon. (Salvadoran politician Joaquin Villalobos)
November 1, 1994... Joaquin Villaobos used to be one of the best guerrilla leaders in El Salvador. As head of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP)--one of five guerrilla groups in the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN)--he was a brilliant fighter...

High-level waste, low-level logic. (nuclear waste disposal site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada)
November 1, 1994... Four years before the United States began the commercial generation of electricity by nuclear fission, James Conant, who advised President Roosevelt on the atomic bomb, predicted that the world would eventually turn away from nuclear power...

How the bomb saved Soviet physics. (atomic bomb)
November 1, 1994... At the end of World War II, Josef Stalin believed that postwar international relations would resemble those of the interwar period. Germany and Japan would rise from defeat. World capitalism would run into crisis, and sharp contradictions would...

Estimated U.S. and Soviet/Russian nuclear stockpiles, 1945-94.
November 1, 1994... As the United States and Russia approach the 1995 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Extension Conference, there is no dispute that the two rarely pursued "in good faith" measures to end the nuclear arms race or sought genuine nuclear...

Minibus, son of mini-nuke. (weapons development) (Column)
November 1, 1994... It is hard to kill the nuclear vampire. Consider a navy memo dated January 31, 1994, which attempts to justify spending $13 million between 1995-97 for an "Advanced Technology Demonstration" of a new reentry vehicle--dubbed "minibus." The...