Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Volume 57 Issue 2

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March
2001
Volume: 57
ISSN: 0096-3402
Page count: 80
Issue external URL: Link

Reports

1 March 2001
Reports

Space: Stuck in Orbit

Colin Woodard
1 March 2001
Reports

Russia: Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Michael Flynn
1 March 2001
Reports

Space: Non-Aggressive Weapons?

Mike Moore
1 March 2001
Reports

Defense Conversion: And Now for the Really Big One

Christopher Pala
1 March 2001
Reports

Chemical Weapons Convention: Israel's Decision Time

Aluf Benn
1 March 2001
Reports

National Security: The Ones to Watch

John Isaacs

Editor's Note

1 March 2001
Editor's Note

Creative Writing

Linda Rothstein

Opinion

1 March 2001
Opinion

The Generals' Discontent

Mustafa Kibaroglu
1 March 2001
Opinion

Defending the “Revolution”

Martin C. Libicki

Feature

1 March 2001
Feature

Magical Thinking: Another Go at Transmutation

Arjun MakhijaniHisham ZerriffiAnnie Makhijani
1 March 2001
Feature

While no One was Looking

Kenneth Bergeron
The U.S. government said it would never use commercial reactors to produce weapon material.
1 March 2001
Feature

Nuclear Testing: Setting the Scene

Bret Lortie
1 March 2001
Feature

Beware the Old Story

Chuck Hansen
1 March 2001
Feature

Defining Reliable

Stephen I. Schwartz
1 March 2001
Feature

Germs on the Loose

Eileen Choffnes
Bloweapons tests tainted sites around the globe.
1 March 2001
Feature

Mission Impossible

Henry D. Sokolski
Described as “preventive defense” or “extended deterrence” by its supporters–but decried as “a new form of gunboat diplomacy” by its detractors–a new program called the “Counterproliferation Initiative” was unveiled in December 1993 by then-Defense Secretary Les Aspin.

Review

1 March 2001
Review

A View from Inside

Catherine Auer
Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda By Khidhir Hamza with Jeff Stein Scribner, 2000 352 pages; $26.00
1 March 2001
Review

A Little History is a Bad Thing

Bruce Cumings
While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today By Donald Kagan and Frederick W. Kagan St. Martin's Press, 2000 435 pages; $32.50
1 March 2001
Review

Homer II

Steven Aftergood
The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA By Ted Gup Doubleday, 2000 390 pages; $25.95
1 March 2001
Review

On Patrol

George Kourous
Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide By Peter Andreas University Press, 2000 158 pages; $26.00
1 March 2001
Review

Science in Context

Michael S. Reidy
Technical Fouls: Democratic Dilemmas and Technological Change By John Kurt Jacobsen Westview Press, 2000 196 pages; $21.00

Nuclear notebook

1 March 2001
Nuclear notebook

U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2001

Robert S. NorrisWilliam M. ArkinHans M. KristensenJoshua Handler

The Last Word

1 March 2001
The Last Word

The Praetorian Guards

William M. Arkin