Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

With weapon delivery measured in minutes, an India-Pakistan agreement on missile controls is essential.

A U.S.-Russian uranium agreement, useful in itself, might also unstick the fissban talks.

The administrations near-gag order assured a less-than-satisfactory outcome to the congressional investigation of 9/11.

Americans like to think the war in Afghanistan is over, but that would be a serious mistake.

Some of Pakistans nuclear scientists believe that the bomb should be shared with all of the Muslim community, even–or especially–with Al Qaeda.

The Nth Country experiment showed that three post-docs with no nuclear knowledge could design a working atom bomb.

How the Defense Department practices the fine art of making friends and influencing people.

Tritium on Ice: The Dangerous New Alliance of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power

By Kenneth D. Bergeron

MIT Press, 2002

232 pages; $24.95

American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy

By Andrew J. Bacevich

Harvard University, 2002

320 pages; $29.95