Abstract
Authors
Ackland, Len, “The Day We Almost Lost Denver,” July/Aug., 58-65
Aftergood, Steven, review of Moynihan, Secrecy, Mar./Apr., 59-60; “Wrongheaded Protection,” July/Aug., 6
Ahmedullah, Mohammed, “Sugarcoating Nuclear Power,” Sept./Oct., 16, 19
Arkin, William M., “U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces, End of 1998,” Jan./Feb., 78-80; “A New Idea for Reductions,” Jan./Feb., 81; “Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, End of 1998,” Mar./Apr., 62-63; “UNSCOM R.I.P.,” Mar./Apr., 64; “Chinese Nuclear Forces, 1999,” May/June, 79-80; “End of an Era,” May/June, 81; “French and British Nuclear Forces, 1999,” July/Aug., 77-79; “In Praise of Heavy Bombers,” July/Aug., 80; “World Plutonium Inventories,” Sept./Oct., 71; “One to Watch,” Sept./Oct., 72; “Where They Were,” Nov./Dec., 26-35; “Politically Depleted Munitions,” Nov./Dec., 72
Austin, Kathi, “Hearts of Darkness,” Jan./Feb., 34-37
Bernstein, Adam, “Canning Plutonium: Faster and Cheaper,” May/June, 66-69
Bourgholtzer, Frank, review of Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police, July/Aug., 66-68
Boutwell, Jeffrey, “The Wild West Bank,” Jan./Feb., 41-44
Burns, Ken, “Web Watch: Games,” Sept./Oct., 13
Burr, William, “Where They Were,” Nov./Dec., 26-34
Butler, Judy, review of LeoGrande, Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992, May/June, 74-75
Clegg, Liz, “NGOs Take Aim,” Jan./Feb., 49-51
Cole, Leonard, “Anthrax Hoaxes: Hot New Hobby?” July/Aug., 7-9; review of Stern, The Ultimate Terrorists, Sept./Oct., 67-68
Cotta-Ramusino, Paolo,” The Unasked Question,” July/Aug., 42-45
Cox, Christopher, “Johnson Got It Wrong,” Nov./Dec., 3
Cumings, Bruce, review of Weart, Never at War: Why Democracies Won't Fight One Another, May/June, 72-74; “China Through the Looking Glass,” Sept./Oct., 30-38
Datt, Savita, “Engaging North Korea,” July/Aug., 76
Dicks, Norm, “Johnson Got It Wrong,” Nov./Dec., 3
Dreyer, June Teufel, “Tangled up with Taiwan,” Nov./Dec., 46-51
Eisendrath, Craig, “Needed: More Intelligent Intelligence,” Nov./Dec., 22-25
Endicott, John E., “Track II,” Nov./Dec., 64
Endicott, Stephen, “Germ Warfare Was Used,” July/Aug., 3-5
Epstein, William, “Voting by Abstention,” Mar./Apr., 6
Evangelista, Matthew, “Russia's Fragile Union,” May/June, 50-55
Farinella, Paolo, “And Then There's Vanunu,” Jan./Feb., 3
Ferguson, Charles, “Tritium: TVA Gets the Nod,” Mar./Apr., 12-14
Fetter, Steve, “After the Dust Settles,” Nov./Dec., 42-45
Flynn, Michael, “The Do-it-yourself Reactor,” Jan./Feb., 7-9; “Political Minefield,” Mar./Apr., 49-53; “Spies R Us,” May/June, 8-9; “Blitzkrieg in the Backyard,” July/Aug., 12; “What Did You Do in the Cold War, Daddy?” Sept./Oct., 9-10; “Web Watch: Games,” Sept./Oct., 13; “Major Tom to Prize Control,” Nov./Dec., 8-10; review of Moreno, Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans, Nov./Dec., 61-62
Frankel, Sherman, “Missile Defense a Dead Issue,” July/Aug., 75-76
Goldblat, Jozef, “Rules of Negotiating Need Renegotiation,” Nov./Dec., 64-65
Goldring, Natalie, “The NRA Goes Global,” Jan./Feb., 61-65
Greacen, Chris, “The Wind Farm in the Cabbage Patch,” May/June, 40-49
Gusterson, Hugh, “Los Alamos: Summer Under Siege,” Nov./Dec., 36-41
Hagerman, Edward, “Germ Warfare Was Used,” July/Aug., 3-5
Hansen, Chuck, “The End of Openness,” May/June, 3-4; “No Change,” Sept./Oct., 4
Hartung, William D., “Billions for Bombs, Pennies for Peacekeeping,” Sept./Oct., 6
Hayes, Peter, “The Wind Farm in the Cabbage Patch,” May/June, 40-49
Herby, Peter, “Focus on Humans, Not Numbers,” July/Aug., 74
Hoehn III, William, “Getting it Right,” May/June, 62-65
Isaacs, John, “Pragmatism, Not Principle,” Jan./Feb., 16-17; “Fortifying Fortress America,” Mar./Apr., 24-25; “Missile Defense: It's Back,” May/June, 26-28; “Having Your Cake,” July/Aug., 19-20; “F-22 in a Tailspin,” Sept./Oct., 14-15; “Test Ban Fizzles,” Nov./Dec., 21-22
Johnson, Chalmers, “In Search of a New Cold War,” Sept./Oct., 44-52; response to “Johnson Got it Wrong,” Nov./Dec., 3, 64
Johnson, Rebecca, “Troubled Treaties: Is the NPT Tottering?” Mar./Apr., 16-18
Karp, Aaron, “Uncertain Prognosis,” Jan./Feb., 66-69
Khan, Ayesha, “Nuclear but Needy,” Jan./Feb., 12-13
Khripunov, Igor, “Minatom at the Edge,” May/June, 56-61; “Moscow Reacts,” July/Aug., 32-35
Kibaroglu, Mustafa, “Turkey's Deterrent,” Mar./Apr., 3, 61
Klare, Michael T., “The Kalashnikov Age,” Jan./Feb., 18-22
Kraig, Michael, “Safe or Sorry: The ‘Y2K Problem’ and Nuclear Weapons,” Mar./Apr., 38-43
Krepon, Michael, “CTBT Deadline Nears,” Mar./Apr., 18-20; “Missile Defense: Not Such a Bad Idea,” May/June, 31-33
Kristensen, Hans M., “Secrecy on a Sliding Scale,” Nov./Dec., 33
Kumaraswamy, P.R., “Israel's Embarrassment of Spies,” Mar./Apr., 14-15, 61
Larin, Vladislav, “Soviet PNEs: A Legacy of Contamination,” May/June, 18-20; “Mayak's Walking Wounded,” Sept./Oct., 20-27
Leahy, Patrick, “Landmines and Kurds,” July/Aug., 74
Leitner, Peter, “A Reckless Disregard for Security,” July/Aug., 71-73
Llumá, Diego, “Low Probability, High Consequence,” Nov./Dec., 14-16
Longworth, Richard C., “A New Kind of War,” July/Aug., 28-31; review of Welsome, The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments During the Cold War, Nov./Dec., 58-61
Lortie, Bret,”Nano Nukes for Micromachines?” Sept./Oct., 11-12; “Web Watch: Scientists,” July/Aug., 13; “BRC: Here We Go Again,” Nov./Dec., 5-7; “Web Watch: Space,” Nov./Dec., 11
Lumpe, Lora, “The Leader of the Pack,” Jan./Feb., 27-33
Luongo, Kenneth, “Getting it Right,” May/June, 62-65
Macfarlane, Allison, “Canning Plutonium: Faster and Cheaper,” May/June, 66-69
Masiza, Zondi, “Mandela's Legacy,” Mar./Apr., 21-23; review of Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, May/June, 76-77
Mathews, Brendan, “London Calling, the NSA Listening,” Mar./Apr., 9-11; “Nukewaste. gov,” May/June, 10-11
McKiernan, Kevin, “Turkey's War on the Kurds,” Mar./Apr., 26-37; “Reply to Ozdag's Letter,” May/June, 5, 77
Mendelson, Jack, “Missile Defense: And It Still Won't Work,” May/June, 29-31
Moon, John, review of Hagerman and Endicott, The United States and Biological Warfare, May/June, 70-72; reply to “Germ Warfare Was Used,” July/Aug., 5, 71
Moore, Mike, “Easy Killing,” Jan./Feb., 2; review of Cohen, Israel and the Bomb, Jan./Feb., 74-76; “The Hapless Kurds,” Mar./Apr., 2; “In Memoriam: Leonard Rieser,” Mar./Apr., 4-5; “A Small Project,” May/June, 2; “In Memoriam: Henry Kendall, Glenn Seaborg, Gerhard Herzberg,” May/June, 21-22; “Invisible War,” July/Aug., 2; “Call China's Hand,” July/Aug., 23; “Splitism,” Sept./Oct., 2; “Demystification,” Nov./Dec. 2; “A Kafkaesque Case of Hua Di,” Nov./Dec., 12-14
Mushtaq, Najum, “A Funny Kind of Deterrence,” May/June, 6; “Islam Distorted,” July/Aug., 53-57
Nelson, Daniel N., “Damage Control,” Jan./Feb., 55-57; No New War,” Sept./Oct., 3-4
Nolan, Janne, “Which Nuclear Future?” Jan./Feb., 3, 77
Norris, Robert S., “U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces, End of 1998,” Jan./Feb., 78-80; “Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, End of 1998,” Mar./Apr., 62-63; “Chinese Nuclear Forces,1999,” May/June, 79-80; “French and British Nuclear Forces, 1999,” July/Aug., 77-79; “World Plutonium Inventories,” Sept./Oct., 71; “Where They Were,” Nov./Dec., 26-35
O'Callaghan, Geraldine, “Wheeling and Dealing,” Jan./Feb., 52-54
Ozdag, Umit, “Turks Fighting Terrorism, Not Kurds,” May/June, 4-5
Paine, Christopher, “Let's Finish the Job,” July/Aug., 24-27
Page, Benjamin I., review of Kull and Destler, Misreading the Public: The Myth of a New Isolationism, Nov./Dec., 62-63
Pearson, Ruth, “Angst on the East River,” Nov./Dec., 19-20, 65
Peters, Ann, “Dozens of Grantees,” Sept./Oct., 5
Rauf, Tariq, “Accommodation, Not Confrontation,” Jan./Feb., 14-16
Renner, Michael, “Arms Control Orphans,” Jan./Feb., 22-26
Rethinaraj, T. S. Gopi, “India: Frozen Out,” May/June, 15; “In the Comfort of Secrecy,” Nov./Dec., 52-57
Richelson, Jeffrey T., “The Cheating Factor,” Jan./Feb., 3; “Uncertain Damage,” Sept./Oct., 17-19
Roberts, Brad, review of Hoffman, Inside Terrorism, and Falkenrath, et al., America's Achilles' Heel, Jan./Feb., 72-74
Rothstein, Linda, “Smaller and Smaller …,” Jan./Feb., 5-7; “Explosive Secrets,” Mar./Apr., 7-8; “Stratcom's Russian Connection,” Mar./Apr., 11; “The War on Speech,” May/June, 7-8; “When Quebec Shrugged,” May/June, 12; “The Crystal Ball, Crack'd,” July/Aug., 10-11; “The Perseus Papers,” July/Aug., 17-19; “The Sound of Music,” Sept./Oct., 12; “Talk About Environmental Impact!” Sept./Oct., 7-9; “Oh No: Not Another Weapon of Mass Destruction,” Nov./Dec., 10
Sagrillo, Mark, “The Wind Farm in the Cabbage Patch,” May/June, 40-49
Sands, Amy, “An Unlikely Threat,” July/Aug., 46-52
Schwartz, Stephen I., “A Very Convenient Scandal,” May/June, 34-39; response to “A Reckless Disregard for Security,” July/Aug., 73-74
Seitz, Russell, “First Reference,” July/Aug., 74-75
Sharma, Kalpana, “Kashmir: Wilting Rose,” Jan./Feb., 4
Silver, Ken, “Plutonium Puzzle,” Sept./Oct., 4-5
Sly, Liz, “A State Of Paranoia,” Sept./Oct., 38-44
Smith, Wayne S., review of Schwab, Cuba: Confronting the U.S. Embargo, Sept./Oct., 68-69
Smithson, Amy E., review of Alibek, Biohazard, July/Aug., 69-71
Stober, Dan, “Steal This!” July/Aug., 14-16
Tar, Eugeny, “Soviet PNEs: A Legacy of Contamination,” May/June, 18-20
Tsipis, Kosta, “Turkish Threat,” May/June, 77-78
Tucker, Jonathan, “An Unlikely Threat,” July/Aug., 46-52
Vegar, Jose, “Working in the Shadows,” Jan./Feb., 37-40
Venter, Al, “Angola: New Mines, What Ban?” May/June, 13-15
Von Hippel, David, “The Wind Farm in the Cabbage Patch,” May/June, 40-49
von Hippel, Frank, “When the Dust Settles,” Nov./Dec., 42-45
Walt, Steve, “Musclebound: The Limits of U.S. Power,” Mar./Apr., 44-48
Warnke, Paul C., review of Kahn, Killing Detente, Jan./Feb., 70-71
Wesolowsky, Tony, “Nuclear Power: Tough Choices on Temelin,” May/June, 16-17
Whitmore, Don, “Which Nuclear Future?” Jan./Feb., 77
Williams, Jim, “The Wind Farm in the Cabbage Patch,” May/June, 40-49
Williams, Phil, “Drugs and Guns,” Jan./Feb., 46-48
Wittner, Lawrence, review of Wang, American Science in an Age of Anxiety, July/Aug., 68-69
Wood, Brian, “Wheeling and Dealing,” Jan./Feb., 52-54
Woodard, Colin, “Endless Détente,” Jan./Feb., 10-12; “NATO Throws Itself a Party,” July/Aug., 36-41
Wright, David C., “Cut North Korea Some Slack,” Mar./Apr., 54-58
Wright, Susan, “The Hijacking of UNSCOM,” May/June, 23-25
Wu, Changhua, “The Price of Growth,” Sept./Oct., 58-66
Wurst, Jim, “The U.N. Gears Up,” Jan./Feb., 58-60
Zamora Collina, Tom, “Let's Finish the Job,” July/Aug., 24-27
Zhang, Ming, “What Threat?” Sept./Oct., 52-58; “China: War Without Rules,” Nov./Dec., 16-18
Books
Alibek, Ken, Biohazard, reviewed by Amy E. Smithson, July/Aug., 69-71
Avner, Cohen, Israel and the Bomb, reviewed by Mike Moore, Jan./Feb., 74-76
Falkenrath, Richard, et al., America's Achilles' Heel, reviewed by Brad Roberts, Jan./Feb., 72-74
Gourevitch, Philip, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, reviewed by Zondi Masiza, May/June, 76-77
Hagerman, Edward, and Stephen Endicott, The United States and Biological Warfare, reviewed by John Moon, May/June, 70-72
Hoffman, Bruce, Inside Terrorism, reviewed by Brad Roberts, Jan./Feb., 72-74
Kahn, Anne, Killing Detente, reviewed by Paul C. Warnke, Jan./Feb., 70-71
Koehler, John O., Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police, reviewed by Frank Bourgholtzer, July/Aug., 66-68
Kull, Steven, and I.M. Destler, Misreading the Public: The Myth of a New Isolationism, reviewed by Benjamin Page, Nov./Dec., 62-63
LeoGrande, William, Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992, reviewed by Judy Butler, May/June, 74-75
Moreno, Jonathan D., Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans, reviewed by Michael Flynn, Nov./Dec., 61-62
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, Secrecy, reviewed by Steven Aftergood, Mar./Apr., 59-60
Schwab, Peter, Cuba: Confronting the U.S. Embargo, reviewed by Wayne S. Smith, Sept./Oct., 68-69
Stern, Jessica, The Ultimate Terrorists, reviewed by Leonard Cole, Sept./Oct, 67-68
Wang, Jessica, American Science in an Age of Anxiety, reviewed by Lawrence Wittner, July/Aug., 68-69
Weart, Spencer, Never at War: Why Democracies Won't Fight One Another, reviewed by Bruce Cumings, May/June, 72-74
Welsome, Eileen, The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments During the War, reviewed by Richard Longworth, Nov./Dec., 58-61
Subjects
Activists: at Los Alamos, Nov./Dec., 36-41
Afghanistan: as source of Islamic jihad, July/Aug., 53-57
Africa: gun running in, Jan./Feb., 34-37; Mandela's legacy, Mar./Apr., 21-23
Agreed Framework: N. Korea has followed, Mar./Apr., 54-58
Agroterrorism: Nov./Dec., 10
Air pollution: in China, Sept./Oct., 58-67
Americium: Mar./Apr., 7-8
Angola: landmines, May/June, 13-15
Antarctica: and international cooperation, Jan./Feb., 10-12
Anthrax: threats now common, July/Aug., 7-9
Arms control: Clinton lost opportunities, Nov./Dec., 21-22
Arms merchants: shadowy world of, Jan./Feb., 37-40
Assault rifles: Jan./Feb., 22-26
B-2 bomber: now post-nuclear, May/June, 81; used in Yugoslavia, July/Aug., 80
Ballistic missile defense: it's back, May/June, 26-28; not a bad idea, May/June, 31-33; still won't work, May/June, 29-31
BBC: had post-nuclear programming ready, Sept./Oct., 12
“Below regulatory concern”: Nov./Dec., 5-7
Bioweapons: and agroterrorism, Nov./Dec., 10; and terrorism, Nov./Dec., 14-16; anthrax threats as hobby, July/Aug., 7-9; unlikely threat, July/Aug., 46-52
Bombers: B-2 an intercontinental weapon, July/Aug., 80
Britain: Nuclear forces 1999, July/Aug., 77-79
Brookhaven National Laboratory: Doomsday site?, Sept./Oct., 7-9
Canada: target of N. Korean missiles?, May/June, 12
Challenges of Fissile Material Control: Mar./Apr., 7-8
Chemical weapons: and terrorism, Nov./Dec., 14-16; unlikely threat, July/Aug., 46-52
Chester, Pennsylvania: U.S. Army exercises in, July/Aug., 12
Chile: and Antarctica, Jan./Feb., 10-12
China: accused of spying, May/June, 34-39; and Taiwan, Sept./Oct., 2; does U.S. want new cold war with?, Sept./Oct., 44-52; economy slacking, Sept./Oct., 38-44; food and energy needs, Sept./Oct., 58-67; holding Hua Di, Nov./Dec., 12-14; military strategy, Nov./Dec., 16-18; nuclear forces, Sept./Oct., 52-58; nuclear forces 1999, May/June, 79-80; similarities with U.S., Sept./Oct., 30-38; spying and disarmament, July/Aug., 23; spying by, Sept./Oct., 17-19; still a police state, Sept./Oct., 38-44
Chinese communist party: rules by force, Sept./Oct., 38-44
CIA: needs reform, Nov./Dec., 22-25
Clinton, Bill: blew arms agreements, Nov./Dec., 21-22
Cold War: medal for, Sept./Oct., 9, 10
Common Aerial Vehicle: CAV new conventional powerhouse, Sept./Oct., 72
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: see CTB Computers: Y2K and nuclear weapons, Mar./Apr., 38-43
Congress: increases military spending, July/Aug., 19-20; may junk spending cap, Jan./Feb., 16-17
Conventional weapons: watch for CAV, Sept./Oct., 72
Cox report: May/June, 34-39; July/Aug., 23; Sept./Oct., 17-19
CTB: ratify it, July/Aug., 24-27; treaty in trouble, Mar./Apr., 18-20; Nov./Dec., 21-22
Czech Republic: and nuclear power, May/June, 16-17
Declassification: enhances security, July/Aug., 6; of nuclear weapon deployments abroad, Nov./Dec., 26-35; inconsistency of, Nov./Dec., 33
Defense budget: increased, July/Aug., 19-20
Defense Department: too many new programs, Mar./Apr., 24-25
Defense spending: F-22 in trouble, Sept./Oct., 14-15; will increase, Jan./Feb., 16-17
Denmark: and nuclear weapons, Nov./Dec., 26-35
Denver: threatened by 1969 Rocky Flats fire, July/Aug., 58-65
Depleted uranium: danger from, Nov./Dec., 42-45
Doomsday: a new Big Bang?, Sept./Oct., 7-9
Drug trade: and small arms, Jan./Feb., 46-48
Echelon: Mar./Apr., 9-11
Energy Department: chooses TVA for tritium, Mar./Apr., 12-14; increasing classification, July/Aug., 6
Espionage: and Echelon, Mar./Apr., 9-11; by China, May/June, 34-39; July/Aug., 23; Furby toy as agent, May/June, 8-9; Soviet, in Israel, Mar./Apr., 14-15, 61; U.S. used UNSCOM in Iraq, Mar./Apr., 64; May/June, 23-25; wrong response to, July/Aug., 6
F-22: in trouble, Sept./Oct., 14-15
Fissile materials: include neptunium, americium, Mar./Apr., 7-8
Foreign aid: too little, Sept./Oct., 6
France: nuclear forces 1999, July/Aug., 77-79
Furby: a spy?, May/June, 8, 9
Greenland: and nuclear weapons, Nov./Dec., 26-35
Gulf War: depleted uranium in, Nov./Dec., 42-45
Guns: societies at fault, Jan./Feb., 2; Jan./Feb., 18-22; giveaways and illegal transfers, Jan./Feb., 22-26; U.S. giveaways, Jan./Feb., 27-33; smuggling, Jan./Feb., 34-37; and arms merchants, Jan./Feb., 37-40; in Middle East, Jan./Feb., 41-44; and drug trade, Jan./Feb., 46-48; NGO efforts to control, Jan./Feb., 49-51; and human rights, Jan./Feb., 52-54; and U.S. policies, Jan./Feb., 55-57; U.N. policies on, Jan./Feb., 58-60; NRA goes global, Jan./Feb., 61-65; difficult to control, Jan./Feb., 66-69
Hall, Ted: July/Aug., 17-19
Helms, Jesse: may block CTB, Mar./Apr., 18-20
Herzberg, Gerhard: May/June, 21-22
Hoaxes: anthrax threats increase, July/Aug., 7-9
Homemade reactor: Jan./Feb., 7-9
Hua Di: Nov./Dec., 12-14
Human rights: and Kurds, Mar./Apr., 26-37; and small arms, Jan./Feb., 52-54; still lacking in China, Sept./Oct., 38-44
ICBL: diverts demining funds?, Mar./Apr., 49-53
India: and arms control, Jan./Feb., 14-16; conflict with Pakistan, May/June, 6; importance of Kashmir, Jan./Feb., 4; nuclear power, May/June, 15; nuclear P.R., Sept./Oct., 16, 19; condition of nuclear industry, Nov./Dec., 52-57
Intelligence: needs reform, Nov./Dec., 22-25; Echelon program, Mar./Apr., 9-11
Iraq: U.N. inspections dead, Mar./Apr., 64; U.S. used UNSCOM to spy, May/June, 23-25
Islamic fundamentalism: and Pakistan, July/Aug., 53-57
Israel: and guns, Jan./Feb., 41-44; and Soviet spies, Mar./Apr., 14-15, 61
Japan: and nuclear weapons, Nov./Dec., 26-35
Kalashnikov age: Jan./Feb., 18-22
Kashmir: importance to India, Jan./Feb., 4
Kendall, Henry: May/June, 21-22
Korea: famine in North, May/June, 40-49; work with North, Mar./Apr., 54-58
Kosovo: excuse to increase defense budget, July/Aug., 19-20; NATO intervention angers Russia, July/Aug., 32-35; NATO war in, July/Aug., 28-31
Kurds: and Turkey, Mar./Apr., 2; Mar./Apr., 26-37
Landmines: in Angola, May/June, 13-15; politics of, Mar./Apr., 49-53
Language: politically correct, May/June, 7-8
Lee, Wen Ho: May/June, 34-39; Sept./Oct., 17-19
Liberia: Jan./Feb., 18-22
Limits to power: Mar./Apr., 44-48
Los Alamos: under siege, Nov./Dec., 36-41
Machines: miniaturization of, Jan./Feb., 5-7; Sept./Oct. 11-13
Mandela, Nelson: Mar./Apr., 21-23
Mayak: nuclear accidents at, Sept./Oct., 20-27
MEMs: Jan./Feb., 5-7; miniature nuclear engines for?, Sept./Oct., 11-13
Micromachines: nuclear powered?, Sept./Oct., 11-13
Military spending: will increase, Jan./Feb., 16-17; increased, July/Aug., 19-20; more not the answer, Mar./Apr., 24-25
Minatom: May/June, 56-61
Missiles: N. Korea's as bargaining chip, Mar./Apr., 54-58
Morrison, Philip: accused by Jeremy Stone, July/Aug., 17-19
MOX: more expensive than immobilization, May/June, 66-69
“… and please, God, step on the millennium bug.”
National missile defense: see BMD
National Rifle Association: Jan./Feb., 2; goes global, Jan./Feb., 61-65
National Security Agency: listening in around the world?, Mar./Apr., 9-11
NATO: members favor nuclear disarmament, Mar./Apr., 6; action in Yugoslavia, July/Aug., 2; war in Kosovo, Jul./Aug., 28-31; angers Moscow with Kosovo intervention, July/Aug., 32-35; at 50, July/Aug., 36-41; and nuclear weapons, July/Aug., 42-45; Nov./Dec., 26-35; nuclear weapons in, Nov./Dec., 66-67
Nautilus Institute: effort in N. Korea, May/June, 40-49
Neptunium: Mar./Apr., 7-8
NGOs: small arms and landmine campaign, Jan./Feb., 49-51; landmine campaign, Mar./April, 49-53
Nonproliferation Treaty: see NPT
North Korea: May/June, 2; and wind power, May/June, 40-49; targets Canada?, May/June, 12; work with, Mar./Apr., 54-58
NPT: in trouble, Mar./Apr., 16-18
Nuclear accidents: and Indian power, Nov./Dec., 52-57
Nuclear Cities Initiative: May/June, 62-65
Nuclear contamination: in household items, Nov./Dec., 5-7
Nuclear deployments: historical, Nov./Dec., 67-68
Nuclear deterrence: strange in South Asia, May/June, 6
Nuclear disarmament: time for unilateral reductions?, Jan./Feb., 81; and NATO, Mar./Apr., 6; July/Aug., 42-45; call China's hand, 23; Clinton lost opportunities, Nov./Dec., 21-22
Nuclear Notebook: U.S. strategic nuclear forces 1998, Jan./Feb., 78-80; Russian strategic nuclear forces 1998, Mar./Apr., 62-63; Chinese nuclear forces 1999, May/June, 79-80; French, British forces 1999, July/Aug., 77-79; world plutonium inventory, Sept./Oct., 71; “Appendix B,” Nov./Dec. 66-67
Nuclear power: in South Asia, Jan./Feb., 14-16; in India, May/June 15; Temelin, May/June, 16-17; “selling it” in India, Sept./Oct., 16, 19; condition of Indian nuclear industry, Nov./Dec., 52-57
Nuclear proliferation: treaty in trouble, Mar./Apr., 16-18; see also NPT
Nuclear reductions: unilateral?, Jan./Feb., 81
Nuclear targeting: de-alert, Mar./Apr., 38-43
Nuclear testing: legacy of PNEs, May/June, 18-20
Nuclear waste: online database, May/June, 10-11
Nuclear weapons: U.S. strategic nuclear forces 1998, Jan./Feb., 78-80; and Y2K problem, Mar./Apr., 38-43; Russian strategic nuclear forces 1998, Mar./Apr., 62-63; Russian agency broke, May/June, 56-61; Chinese forces 1999, May/June, 79-80; end of era of, May/June, 81; Bomb data goes on line, July/Aug., 14-16; and NATO, July/Aug., 42-45; fire at Rocky Flats production plant, July/Aug., 58-65; French, British forces 1999, July/Aug., 77-79; accidents at Russia's production plant, Sept./Oct., 20-27; China's ambitions, Sept./Oct., 52-58; abroad, Nov./Dec., 26-35; Nov./Dec., 66-67
Nuclear weapons labs: spied on?, May/June, 34-39; putting bomb data on computer, July/Aug., 14-16; security deficiencies at, Sept./Oct., 17-19
Nuclear weapons material: producing STRAT-COM's electricity, Mar./Apr., 11; cheaper to immobilize plutonium, May/June, 66-69; world inventory of plutonium, Sept./Oct., 71
Okinawa: nuclear weapons in, Nov./Dec., 26-35
Ozersk: see Mayak
Pakistan: and Kashmir, Jan./Feb., 4; hurt by nuclear testing, Jan./Feb., 12-13; and arms control, Jan./Feb., 14-16; conflict with India, May/June, 6; and Islamic fundamentalism, July/Aug., 53-57
Palestine: and guns, Jan./Feb., 41-44
Peaceful Nuclear Explosions: see PNEs
Peacekeeping: needs U.N. leadership, Nov./Dec., 19-20, 65
Pentagon: too many programs, Mar./Apr., 24-25
Perseus: who was he?, July/Aug., 17-19
PKK: struggle with Turkey, Mar./Apr., 26-37
Plutonium: cheaper to immobilize, May/June, 66-69; fire at Rocky Flats, July/Aug., 58-65; world inventory of, Sept./Oct., 71
PNEs: contamination from Soviet, May/June, 18-20
Political prisoners: Kafkaesque case of Hua Di, Nov./Dec., 12-14
Political science: expert judgment wrong, July/Aug., 10-11
Politically correct: language, May/June, 7-8
Press: and India's nuclear agency, May/June, 15
Radioactive boy scout: Jan./Feb., 7-9
Radioactivity: and scrap metal, Nov./Dec., 5-7; effect of depleted uranium, Nov./Dec., 42-45
Recycling: and radioactivity, Nov./Dec., 5-7
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider: Sept./Oct., 7-9
Rieser, Leonard: Mar./Apr., 4-5
Rocky Flats: 1969 fire at, July/Aug., 58-65
Rules of war: a Western idea, Nov./Dec., 16-18
Russia: powering STRATCOM's lights?, Mar./Apr., 11; Strategic nuclear forces 1998, Mar./Apr., 62-63; contaminated by PNEs, May/June, 18-20; could break up, May/June, 50-55; nuclear agency broke, May/June, 56-61; scientists need help, May/June, 62-65; cheaper to immobilize plutonium in, May/June, 66-69; angered by NATO in Yugoslavia, July/Aug., 32-35; nuclear accidents, Sept./Oct., 20-27; see also Soviet Union
Satellites: on the web, Nov./Dec., 11
Seaborg, Glenn: May/June, 21-22
Secrecy: wrong protection, July/Aug., 6; bomb data goes on line, July/Aug., 14-16; inconsistent use of, Nov./Dec., 33
Senate: votes to deploy NMD, May/June, 26-28
Sequoyah: will produce tritium, Mar./Apr., 12-14
SETI: at home, Nov./Dec., 11
Simpson, John: May/June, 12
Small arms: global trade in, Jan./Feb., 2; Jan./Feb. 18-26; U.S. role in, Jan./Feb., 27-33; and gun running, Jan./Feb., 34-37; and arms merchants, Jan./Feb., 37-40; in Middle East, Jan./Feb., 41-44; and drug trade, Jan./Feb., 46-48; NGO efforts to control, Jan./Feb., 49-51; and human rights, Jan./Feb., 52-54; and U.S. policies, Jan./Feb., 55-57; U.N. policies on, Jan./Feb., 58-60; NRA goes global, Jan./Feb., 61-65; difficult to control, Jan./Feb., 66-69
Smart dust: Jan./Feb., 5-7
South Africa: Mandela's legacy, Mar./Apr., 21-23
South Asia: nuclear arms in, Jan./Feb., 14-16
Sovereignty: no longer inviolate, Jul./Aug., 28-31
Soviet Union: spies in Israel, Mar./Apr., 14-15, 61; accidents at Mayak, Sept./Oct., 20-27; see also Russia
Sovietologists: wrong, July/Aug., 10-11
Space: contest, Nov./Dec., 8-10; on the Net, Nov./Dec., 11
Spending priorities: U.S. gives little foreign aid, Sept./Oct., 6
Spying: May/June, 34-39; highlights need for intelligence reform, Nov./Dec., 23-25; puts Los Alamos under siege, Nov./Dec., 36-41; see also Espionage
Starchaser space rocket, Nov./Dec., 8-10
START: ignore?, Jan./Feb., 81
Stone, Jeremy: July/Aug., 17-19
STRATCOM: and recycled nukes, Mar./Apr., 11
Strategic Concept: NATO's new, July/Aug., 42-45
Taiwan: and China, Sept./Oct., 2; Nov./Dec., 46-51
Temelin: ready to start?, May/June, 16-17
Tennessee Valley Authority: will produce weapons tritium, Mar./Apr., 12-14
Terrorism: anthrax hoaxes rampant, July/Aug., 7-9; bio or chemical use unlikely, July/Aug., 46-52; and agriculture, Nov./Dec., 10; and chemical, bioweapons, Nov./Dec., 14-16
Test ban treaty: in trouble, Mar./Apr., 18-20; ratify it, July/Aug., 24-27
Treaties: small arms difficult, Jan./Feb., 66-69; NPT in trouble, Mar./Apr., 16-18; CTB in trouble, Mar./Apr., 18-20
Tritium: to come from TVA, Mar./Apr., 12-14
Turkey: and the Kurds, Mar./Apr., 2; 26-37
U.S. Army: urban exercises, July/Aug., 12
United Nations: small arms policies, Jan./Feb., 58-60; nuclear disarmament efforts and NATO, Mar./Apr., 6; Special Commission dead, Mar./Apr., 64; UNSCOM used by U.S., May/June, 23, 25; Nov./Dec., 19-20, 65
United States: small arms transfer policies, Jan./Feb., 55-57; strategic nuclear forces 1998, Jan./Feb., 78-80; arms Turkey for war on Kurds, Mar./Apr., 26-37; and limits of power, Mar./Apr., 44-48; should work with N. Korea, Mar./Apr., 54-58; should aid Russian scientists, May/June, 62-65; how it sees China, Sept./Oct., 30-38; seeks new cold war with China?, Sept./Oct., 44-52
Watts Bar: will produce tritium, Mar./Apr., 12-14
Weapons labs: Los Alamos under siege, Nov./Dec., 36-41
World Wide Web: Y2K and nuclear weapons, Mar./Apr., 38-43; nuclear waste database, May/June, 10-11; and scientists, July/Aug., 13; and games, Sept./Oct., 13; and space, Nov./Dec. 11
X Prize: and space travel, Nov./Dec., 8-10
Yugoslavia: as post-nuclear conflict, May/June, 81; conflict in, July/Aug., 2; NATO war in, Jul./Aug., 28-31; B-2 bomber used in conflict, July/Aug., 80; money for bombs, no money for aid, Sept./Oct., 6
