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Wired March 2002 Evan Ratliff	This Is Not a Test A decade after America's last nuclear test, the US arsenal is decaying and its designers are retiring. Now a new generation of scientists is trying to preserve bomb-building knowledge before it's too late...
Salon.com May 16, 2001 Fiona Morgan	"A dangerous step backwards" Why has President Bush cut funding to combat nuclear proliferation in Russia, and will Congress be able to bring it back?
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 Samuel K. Moore	Risk Analysis Finds Nuclear Deterrence Wanting Engineering risk-analysis methods applied to the Cold War years point to a continuing threat, says Stanford professor
National Defense June 2009 Erwin & Magnuson	7 Deadly Myths About Weapons of Terror Seven noteworthy misconceptions associated with weapons of terror.
Geotimes October 2005 Katie Donnelly	A Denuclearized Korean Peninsula South Korea is not alone in having a different perspective than the United States about North Korea. Even though the other countries involved in the Six Party Talks have vested interests in a denuclearized Korean peninsula, each sees the problem of North Korea in a different light with different solutions.
National Defense August 2013 Insinna & Parsons	United States Remains Concerned About Nuclear Weapons The number of nuclear weapons in circulation worldwide has been slowly but steadily declining in recent years because the United States and Russia are scaling back their nuclear arsenals.
Popular Mechanics February 2, 2010 Erin McCarthy	Director Lucy Walker Takes on Nuclear Weapons in Countdown to Zero In Countdown to Zero, Walker aims to show the world that nuclear weapons are an even bigger threat now than they were in the Cold War.
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 M. V. Ramana	More Missiles Than Megawatts India's nuclear choices have favored warheads over civilian reactors, and those choices are taking their toll. Between its burgeoning economy and a population that is projected to eclipse China's by 2050, India has difficult choices to make regarding its energy future.
Salon.com January 2, 2003 Robert Scheer	Bush's illogical foreign policy The nuclear threat from North Korea reveals the limits of the Bush administration's preemption doctrine.
IEEE Spectrum September 2010 William Sweet	Book: Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemies One man's theft of nuclear secrets dispersed atom bomb technologies to North Korea and Libya
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 William Sweet	Google Earth Pictures Open Windows on China's Nuclear Weaponry Here is an interview with the nuclear weapons specialist at the Federation of American Scientists who believes Google images shed light on China's deployment of its second-generation of nuclear weapons systems.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Kieron Murphy	Q&A: Paul G. Richards, Nuclear Arms Seismologist An interview with the Mellon Professor of the Natural Sciences at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University on the science of detecting and measuring nuclear weapons test explosions.
National Defense March 2010 Austin Wright	An X-Ray Machine for Nukes The government is upgrading the X-ray technology that detects flaws in its nuclear weapons stockpile.
BusinessWeek August 25, 2003 Stan Crock	North Korea: Talking Is One Thing. Getting Somewhere Is Another Negotiations expected to begin in September involving North Korea, South Korea, China, Japan, Russia, and the U.S. are likely to be the most difficult and complex the Bush Administration has attempted so far. The Administration faces a host of dilemmas.
National Defense August 2008 Matthew Rusling	Oil Is Out; Is Nuclear In? Put yourself in an imaginary time machine and set the dial to around the year 2040. The exorbitant price of oil, now at $500 a barrel, has pushed a good chunk of the globe toward nuclear power.
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 Peter Fairley	Nuclear Wasteland With visions of nuclear electricity "too cheap to meter" long gone, the case for breeder reactors has shifted from creation of new fuels to management of spent fuels. The French are recycling nuclear waste. Should other countries follow suit?
Science News June 20, 2009 Elizabeth Quill	Book Review: The Bomb: A New History By Stephen M. Younger Younger offers a straightforward account of nuclear weapons: how they were developed, how they work and how they forced humankind into constant vulnerability
Parameters Autumn 2004 Richard L. Russell	Iran in Iraq's Shadow: Dealing with Tehran's Nuclear Weapons Bid The Iraq war is the backdrop for the evolving policy debate on Iran. Tehran might be tempted to harness the threat of nuclear weapons for leverage in the political-military struggle against the United States for power and influence in the Persian Gulf.
IEEE Spectrum April 9, 2008 Prachi Patel-Predd	Antineutrino Detector Could Spot Atom Bomb Cheats A new type of detector that researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and Sandia National Laboratories, recently tested detects particles known as antineutrinos that fly out of the reactor. The device can help in monitoring nuclear reactors.
AskMen.com	A Missile Strike On Hawaii? North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese news report said Thursday, as Russia and China urged the regime to return to international disarmament talks on its rogue nuclear program.
Parameters Summer 2004 Justin Bernier	The Death of Disarmament in Russia? Traditional arms control agreements with Russia, it seems, are as much a part of Cold War history as the Soviet Union itself.
National Defense April 2009	Nuke Recycling Nuclear power is stymied in this country from unnatural fear.
IEEE Spectrum April 2005 Erico Guizzo	The Atomic Fortress That Time Forgot The world's first plutonium-making reactor is an Atomic Age landmark--and it faces an uncertain future. The U.S. Department of Energy has been laboring for years to clean up the radioactive and chemical contamination there.
Salon.com August 11, 2000 Fiona Morgan	Mutually assured dysfunction President Clinton's nuclear missile defense plan will spur a new arms race, a report by top intelligence agencies predicts.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 John Rhea	New terrorist challenge: North Korea It's a challenge the United States can ill afford to ignore. North Korea's WMDs are not illusory. Moreover, its missiles make Saddam Hussein's look puny by comparison.
BusinessWeek May 30, 2005 Stan Crock	Back To The Cold War? Rogue nations like Iran and North Korea are amassing a nuclear arsenal. What should Washington do?
Popular Mechanics December 29, 2008 Jeremy Jacquot	3 Projects We Hope to See From the DOE's Next Nuclear Research Facility Studying rare nuclear isotopes with unstable, short-lived nuclei has plenty of practical and commendable applications in medicine, national security, and cosmology.
National Defense June 2006 Harold Kennedy	U.S. Steps Up Efforts to Keep WMD Out of Enemy Hands Amid concerns about terrorist attacks against the U.S. and its allies, the U.S. government is increasing its efforts to keep enemies from acquiring and using weapons of mass destruction. Some of these efforts, however, are raising hackles even at home.
IEEE Spectrum March 2005 DeBlois et al.	Star-Crossed Should the United States, or any nation for that matter, weaponize space? From orbiting lasers to metal rods that strike from the heavens, the potential to wage war from space raises startling possibilities---and serious problems.
Parameters Autumn 2008 Nader Elhefnawy	The Next Wave of Nuclear Proliferation Record oil prices and long-term concerns about fossil fuel supplies have helped revive interest in nuclear energy production, but little consideration has been given to the security implications of using it on a global scale.
Salon.com March 13, 2002 Robert Scheer	When in doubt, nuke 'em The Pentagon's secret plan to fight terror with nuclear weapons shows just how dangerous this administration is...
Popular Mechanics February 2007 Simon Cooper	North Korea's Biochemical Threat While its nuclear test spurs outrage, North Korea grows a vast biochemical weapons arsenal in secrecy. We investigate Kim Jong Il's deception, his country's human trials and the terror potential of this rogue nation's deadly harvest.
Geotimes August 2005 Katie Donnelly	The State of Nuclear Nonproliferation Several nuclear-related topics not only are important to the nation's security, but also are scientifically interesting.
Reason July 2003 Doug Bandow	Cutting the Tripwire It's time for the U.S. to get out of Korea
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004 Stan Crock	Two Ways To Stop The Spread Of Nukes The awful truth is that the world is a more dangerous place now than it was even during the Cold War. But new ideas may yet help to lower the nuclear peril.
National Defense May 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Nuclear Programs Receive Money for Upgrades The Energy Department is allocating more money for monitoring and improving the nation's aging supply of nuclear weapons and concurrently is laying a foundation for the construction of new warheads.
Popular Mechanics November 1, 2007 Kate Winick	During Iran Nuke Controversy, a Look Back at the Manhattan Project The controversy over Iran's nuclear ambitions comes 62 years after the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
National Defense June 2009 Clark A. Murdock	A World Free of Nuclear Weapons: How Realistic Is Obama's Vision? Debating the realism of trying to rid the world of nuclear weapons is a pointless exercise.
Salon.com June 9, 2000 Joshua Micah Marshall	Dubya's atomic fib Instead of stopping an arms race, George W. Bush's Star Wars plan could help fuel one.
Popular Mechanics October 11, 2006 Alex Hutchinson	Nuke Watch: How Scientists Sniffed Out N. Korea This timely exclusive looks at nuclear detection technology and finds out just how tough it is to hide a weapons blast.
BusinessWeek May 16, 2005 Moon Ihlwan	Why North Korea May Start Nuclear Testing North Korea's reclusive leader, Kim Jong Il, is back in the spotlight as he plays a dangerous survival game, threatening the world yet again with his nuclear arms program.
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Harry Goldstein	Q&A With: Sudhinder Thakur This leading executive in India's civilian nuclear power program tells us that his country's recent agreement with the United States will help in a plan to use thorium as a fuel.
National Defense April 2009	No Nuclear Meltdowns If the United States is ever going to make a serious effort to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power generation, then nuclear power plants will be an indispensable element in the program.
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National Defense June 2008 Stew Magnuson	Public Still in the Dark When it Comes to Dirty Bomb Threat The federal government has come up short in public information campaigns to educate the public on what to do in the event of a radiation attack
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