Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Volume 64 Issue 1

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March
2008
Volume: 64
ISSN: 0096-3402
Page count: 60
Issue external URL: Link

Interview

1 March 2008
Interview

Interview: Peter Sellars

Doctor Atomic's creator argues that art and science do the same thing: permit us to think in new ways.

Feature

1 March 2008
Feature

The Body's Own Bioweapons

Jonathan B. Tucker
The next biothreat could come from chemicals derived from the human body that can incapacitate and kill–and which skirt existing arms controls.
1 March 2008
Feature

Consensual Security

John Steinbruner
The disaster in Iraq is a harbinger for a changing global order, one that increasingly defines national security in terms of global cooperation.
1 March 2008
Feature

Making Nuclear Energy Work

Robert Rosner
How shifting research goals and improving collaboration with industry will help U.S. national labs spur new nuclear energy development.
1 March 2008
Feature

Disarmament Redux

J. Peter Scoblic
The U.S. foreign policy establishment is beginning to consider progress toward “the d-word”–above and beyond deterrence–a global security imperative.
1 March 2008
Feature

The Bureaucracy of Deterrence

Janne E. NolanJames R. Holmes
To remake U.S. nuclear weapons policy, the next president will need to overcome entrenched interests. How arduous a task will this be? Ask Bill Clinton.

Review

1 March 2008
Review

The Kyoto Protocol

Gwyn PrinsSteve Rayner

Nuclear notebook

1 March 2008
Nuclear notebook

U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2008

Robert S. NorrisHans M. Kristensen

Turn back the clock

1 March 2008
Turn back the clock

A Nuclear-Weapon-Free Arctic

Michael D. Wallace

It Is 5 Minutes To Midnight

1 March 2008
It Is 5 Minutes To Midnight

Building Better U.S.-Russian Relations