Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?
 Will the Terrorists Go Nuclear?: For several presidential elections the candidates have all said the greatest danger facing America is nuclear terrorism. Even now. But somehow, it isn't part of the discussion, perhaps because they don't know how to talk [... more]
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Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers : How the Bomb ...
No Limits for Today's Postnuclear Aircraft Carrier: At a time when the efficacy, utility, and survivability of the big-deck aircraft carrier and its multimission air wing are being challenged anew by armchair strategists and "inside-the-Beltway" [... more]
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New Nuclear Fears
On the heels of President Bush's go-ahead to construct the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada that was described in our January 1999 issue, British scientists released an unsettling report. It says that rock-tunnel pressure ... [... more]
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Nuclear Arsenal
Police in Prague catch a Czech nuclear physicist with enough nuclear material to build five bombs. A disgruntled former Soviet military officer offers Greenpeace a nuclear warhead. Investigators combing the Aum Shinrikyo compound discover that ... [... more]
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U.S. Air Force's Nuclear Flying Saucer
From 300 miles in space the LRV would be able to rain nuclear destruction on the Soviet Union, Red China and North Korea. In 1949, the biggest black hole in the universe wasn't in space, but across the Bering Strait. Stretching across 12 time ... [... more]
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NASA Goes Nuclear
VOLTS TO GO: A new reactor would guarantee JIMO ample power. ILLUSTRATION BY NASA For the first time in four decades, NASA has firm plans to launch a nuclear reactor. To put its Prometheus plan into action, the space agency, along with the ... [... more]
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PODCAST: The Nuclear Option
Could nuclear power be the next source of green energy? With the threat of global warming looming and the need for renewable resources pressing, environmentalists are finding an unlikely bedfellow in nuclear power. We'll talk with Popular ... [... more]
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Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran
TWA 800 , Beirut , 911 , Hamas , Dhobar , USS Cole: Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran 1. Iran has Uranium enrichment centrifuges and used to convert uranium into fuel for nuclear weapons. 2. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard has [... more]
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Robots Are Tougher Than You, Part 2: Nuclear Radiation
Prepare to receive your bite-sized dose of robotics information for the week. We continue our theme of tough robots (tougher than you and me, anyway) by turning to examine the perils of nuclear radiation. Excessive exposure to radiation (like ... [... more]
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Nuclear Weapons of the United States: An Illustrated History
lots of typos: This book has lots of great photos. It also seems to have a lot of information, but there are so many editing problems that I am reluctant to trust its technical and historical information. While I was reading it, I found typesetting [... more]
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From Nuclear Military Strategy to a World Without War
Necessary Reading to Understand a Nuclear World: This book is truly thought-provoking, and Dr. Hilsman deserves high praise for even tackling the subject of what we can do to avoid a nuclear war. He has written superbly of past nuclear policies, such as [... more]
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Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer
Good to know.: If one believes as dogmatic truths even half of the erroneous information in this book, the sometimes religious opposition by some to nuclear power is understandable. Caldicott does a great job in reassembling in one single book about all [... more]
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