Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The United Nations needs its own rapid deployment force, dedicated to serving not one, but all, nations.

Not according to U.N. monitors–or to U.S. intelligence, which has watched the situation even more carefully.

Civil defense? It's the same old story. Citizens will have to pay for their own protection against possible attack.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is still unwilling to respond to serious security problems.

In 1966, a group of scientists studied the possible use of nuclear weapons in Vietnam. Here's why their report advised against it.

The idea, in May 1943, that atomic bombs could produce a U.S.-dictated world peace was a fantasy then–as it is now.

One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture By Kenneth D. Rose, New York University Press, 2001, 313 pages; $28.95

Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America By Tom Vanderbilt, Princeton Architectural Press, 2002, 228 pages; $25.00

A Time to Die: The Untold Story of the Kursk Tragedy by Robert Moore, Crown Publishers, 2003, 271 pages; $25.00