Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Stranded in Gibraltar, a nuclear sub becomes a political hot potato

Downsizing Russia's nuclear weapons complex is very much in the world's interest.

What did it take to pry Hanford's secrets from the Energy Department? Tenacity, and a whole lot of time.

The journalist who fought to reveal the “secret” of the H-bomb says there are, in fact, no secrets left

Openness has its virtues, but protecting certain types of nuclear information is as important now as it was 50 years ago.

Why won't the government come clean about its nuclear weapons accidents?

Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain By Peter Grose Houghton Mifflin, 2000 320 pages; $25.00

Undermining the Kremlin: America's Strategy to Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947-1956, By Gregory Mitrovich Cornell University Press, 2000 256 pages; $32.50

Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, By Chalmers Johnson Metropolitan Books, 2000 268 pages; $26.00

Atomic Fragments: A Daughter's Questions, By Mary Palevsky, University of California Press, 2000, 289 pages; $24.95