Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Volume 55 Issue 1

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January
1999
Volume: 55
ISSN: 0096-3402
Page count: 81
Issue external URL: Link

Reports

1 January 1999
Reports

Antarctica: Endless Détente

Colin Woodard
1 January 1999
Reports

Pakistan: Nuclear But Needy

Ayesha Khan

Opinion

1 January 1999
Opinion

Accommodation, Not Confrontation

Tariq Rauf
1 January 1999
Opinion

Pragmatism Over Principle

John Isaacs

Feature

1 January 1999
Feature

The Kalashnikov Age

Michael Klare
When Charles Taylor invaded Liberia, he unleashed the most deadly combat system of the current epoch–the adolescent human male equipped with an AK-47 assault rifle.
1 January 1999
Feature

Arms Control Orphans

Michael Renner
Millions of the assault rifles now in the hands of the world's killers started out as legal weapons.
1 January 1999
Feature

The Leader of the Pack

Lora Lumpe
The United States leads the world in weapon sales and giveaways.
1 January 1999
Feature

Hearts of Darkness

Kathi Austin
1 January 1999
Feature

Working in the Shadows

Jose Vegar
Arms merchants–dealers, middlemen, politicians, and military officers–engage in deals that operate on a number of levels–legal, quasi-legal, and nowhere-near-legal.
1 January 1999
Feature

The Wild West Bank

Jeffrey Boutwell
1 January 1999
Feature

Drugs and Guns

Phil Williams
The money to buy weapons often comes from the sale of drugs.
1 January 1999
Feature

NGOs Take Aim

Liz Clegg
1 January 1999
Feature

Wheeling and Dealing

Geraldine O'CallaghanBrian Wood
1 January 1999
Feature

Damage Control

Daniel N. Nelson
By tackling illicit arms sales, the United States hopes to defuse the light arms campaign and protect the legal trade.
1 January 1999
Feature

The U.N. Gears Up

Jim Wurst
1 January 1999
Feature

The NRA Goes Global

Natalie J. Goldring
1 January 1999
Feature

Uncertain Prognosis

Aaron Karp
There is no easy way to prevent small shipments of small arms.

Guest Opinion

1 January 1999
Guest Opinion

Kashmir: Wilting Rose

Kalpana Sharma

Review

1 January 1999
Review

The B Team

Paul C. Warnke
Killing Detente: The Right Attacks the CIA By Anne Hessing Cahn, Penn State Press, 1998, 232 pages; $17.95
1 January 1999
Review

America the Vulnerable?

Brad Roberts
Inside Terrorism By Bruce Hoffman, Victor Gollancz, 1998, 278 pages; $24.95 America's Achilles' Heel: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack By Richard Falkenrath, Robert D. Newman, and Bradley A. Thayer, MIT Press, 1998, 350 pages; $22.50
1 January 1999
Review

Beyond the Pale

Mike Moore
Israel and the Bomb By Avner Cohen, Columbia University Press, 470 pages; $27.50

Nuclear notebook

1 January 1999
Nuclear notebook

U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces, End of 1998

Robert S. NorrisWilliam M. Arkin

The Last Word

1 January 1999
The Last Word

A New Idea for Reductions

William M. Arkin