"Nuclear News"
We will post here news items related to the course (in reverse
chronological order).
2005
- AMERICAN PROMETHEUS: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert
Oppenheimer
- Washington Post Book Review: April 10, 2005
- A Fierce Debate on Atom Bombs From Cold War
- New York Times: April 3, 2005
- Storage
of Nuclear Spent Fuel Criticized
- Washington Post: March 28, 2005
- Out West, Way Out: The Melted Dog: Memories of an Atomic
Childhood
- New York Times: March 30, 2005
- Listening to the Beat of the
Bomb
- New York Times: March 15, 2005
- Hans Bethe, Father of Nuclear
Astrophysics, Dies at 98
- New York Times: March 8, 2005
- It Was Once Ground Zero. Now
Little but Danger Is Left
- New York Times: March 3, 2005
- A Tribe, Nimble and Determined,
Moves Ahead With Nuclear Storage Plan
- New York Times: February 28, 2005
- Iran Was Offered Nuclear
Parts
- Washington Post:February 27, 2005
- Atomic
Testing Museum Opens
-
- Downwinders Charge Atomic
Testing Museum of Revisionist History
- http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0223-04.htm February 23,
2005
- A Place to Consider
Apocalypse
- New York Times: February 23, 2005
- Museum a blast from the
past
- Las Vegas Review-Journal: February 14, 2005
- U.S. Redesigning Atomic
Weapons
- New York Times: February 7, 2005
- Let's Not Make the Same Mistakes
in Iran
- David Kay in Washington Post: February 7, 2005
- Tests Said to Tie Deal on
Uranium to North Korea
- New York Times: February 5, 2005
- North Korea May Have Sent
Libya Nuclear Material, U.S. Tells Allies
- Washington Post: February 5, 2005
2004
- As Nuclear Secrets Emerge in Khan
Inquiry, More Are Suspected
- New York Times: December 26, 2004
- Cherbobyl: Living in the
Dead Zone
- New York Times: Martin Cruz Smith December 22, 2004
- North Korea's nukes: advanced,
but hidden
- Christian Science Monitor: December 21, 2004
- Shipment of Bomb-Grade
Plutonium Reaches France"
- Reuters News: October 06, 2004
- Suffering Effects of 50's A-Bomb
Tests
- New York Times: September 5, 2004
- From Rogue Nuclear Programs, Web
of Trails Leads to Pakistan
- New York Times: January 4, 2004
2003
- Using Baby Teeth as a Geiger
Counter
- New York Times: November 11, 2003
- Criticism Meets New Exhibit of
Plane That Carried A-Bomb
- New York Times: November 2, 2003
- Search in Iraq Fails to Find
Nuclear Threat
- Washington Post: October 26, 2003
- Edward Teller, a Fierce
Architect of the Hydrogen Bomb, Dies at 95
- New York Times: September 11, 2003
- Enola Gay Reassembled for Revised
Museum Show
- New York Times: August 19, 2003
- August 1945, and the Decision to
Drop the Bomb
- Gar Alperovitz, New York Times: August 11, 2003 in response to
Kristof
- Blood on Our Hands?
- Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times: August 5, 2003
- Facing a Second Nuclear
Age
- New York Times: August 3, 2003
- Iran's Nuclear Program: For
Electricity or a Bomb?
- New York Times: August 3, 2003
- Executed at Sundown, 50 Years
Ago
- New York Times: June 20, 2003
- Yes, They Were Guilty. But of
What Exactly?
- New York Times: June 15, 2003
- Repair Plan for Reactor With
Leaks
- New York Times: June 6, 2003
- British Energy Takes Big
Write-Down on Plants
- New York Times: June 4, 2003
- Ohio Reactor's Problems Are
Said to Persist
- New York Times: May 4, 2003
- Extraordinary Reactor Leak
Gets the Industry's Attention
- New York Times: May 1, 2003
- Obituaries of Allan Nunn May -- first of the "physicist
spies"
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- Alan Nunn May, 91, Pioneer in
Atomic Spying for Soviets, Is Dead
- New York Times: January 25, 2003
- Allan Nunn May Dies; Scientist
Gave Atomic Data to Soviets
- Washington Post: January 24, 2003
- Alan Nunn May Obituary
(pdf)
- Times (London): January 24, 2003
2002
- 'Red Spy Queen': The
Witness
- New York Time Book Review: November 3, 2002
- Heisenberg and the German
Bomb(pdf)
- T. M. Sanders Contemporary Physics: September-October,
2002
- '88 Warning Was Rejected at
Damaged Nuclear Plant
- New York Times: September 30, 2002
- Nuclear Dangers Beyond
Iraq
- New York Times (OpEd): September 29, 2002
- The Kick in the Fruit Punch
Could Be Atomic
- New York Times: September 12, 2002
- Reviews and articles concerning the book Brotherhood of the
Bomb by Gregg Herken
- subtitled ``The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert
Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller''
- New Detail About the
Bickering Builders of the Bomb
- New York Times: September 20, 2002, review by David A.
Hollinger
- 'Brotherhood of the Bomb':
The Hunt for Oppenheimer
- New York Times: September 15, 2002
- Atomic Reactions
- Washington Post: September 13, 2002
- Book Contends Chief of A-Bomb
Team Was Once a Communist
- New York Times: September 8, 2002
- The Men Who Built the
Bomb
- Newsday: August 25, 2002
- On a Balkan War's Last Day,
Trouble From the Sky
- New York Times: September 2, 2002
- Meredith Knox Gardner, Army Code
Breaker, Dies
- Washington Post: August 15, 2002
- Components of 'Little Boy' Sold at
Auction
- Physics Today: August, 2002
- 'Sakharov': From the H-Bomb to
Human Rights
- New York Times Book Review: April 7, 2002
- U.S. Orders Checks for Corrosion
at Nuclear Reactors
- New York Times: March 26, 2002
- A Company's Gain From Energy
Report's Recommendation
- New York Times: March 24, 2002
- Almost All in U.S. Have Been
Exposed to Fallout, Study Finds
- New York Times: March 1, 2002
- Robert J. Lamphere, 83, Spy
Chaser for the F.B.I., Dies
- New York Times: February 11, 2002
- Suicidal Nuclear Threat Is Seen
at Weapons Plants
- New York Times: January 23, 2002
- Report Finds Shortcomings In
Energy Dept. Arms Testing
- Washington Post: January 3, 2002
2001
- For Radiation, How Much Is Too
Much?
- New York Times: November 27, 2001
- How Edward Teller Learned to
Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Richard Rhodes
- Review from New York Times: November 25, 2001
- British Secretly Used Babies'
Bones in Tests
- New York Times: October 1, 2001
- When Science Inadvertently Aids an
Enemy
- New York Times: September 25, 2001
- Of Atomic Secrets, Loyalty
and Bitter Deceit
- New York Times: September 18, 2001
- Nuclear Booty: More Smugglers
Use Asia Route
- New York Times: September 11, 2001
- Land for Los Alamos Lab
Taken Unfairly, Heirs Say
- New York Times: August 27, 2001
- U.S. Balks on Plan to Take
Plutonium Out of Warheads
- New York Times: August 21, 2001
- Report on the case of Wen Ho Lee
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- Justice Dept. Cites Problems
in 2 Inquiries at Los Alamos
- New York Times: August 14, 2001
- U.S. Probe of Nuclear Scientist
Assailed
- Washington Post: August 14, 2001
- The Nuclear August of
1945
- New York Times: August 6, 2001
- Radioactive Waste Site: A Shift in
Strategy
- New York Times: July 31, 2001
- Marshall Islands
Journal
- New York Times: June 30, 2001
- Nuclear Programs Are Losing
Ground on Campus
- New York Times: June 28, 2001
- Useful Legacy of Nuclear Treaty:
Global Earphones
- New York Times: June 19, 2001
- Handicapping Reactors by the
Numbers
- New York Times: June 19, 2001
- Author to Sue U.S. Over Book on
China's Nuclear Advance
- New York Times: June 18, 2001
- The Early
Days of Pugwash by Joseph Rotblat
- Physics Today June 2001
- New Focus on Fuel
Storage
- New York Times: June 4, 2001
- Reprocessing Used
Fuel
- New York Times: June 4, 2001
- U.S. muzzles its own expert on
China's nuclear labs
- International Herald Tribune: May 17, 2001
- These Days, the Cold War Is
Getting a Warm Reception
- New York Times: May 2, 2001
- Who Built the H-Bomb? Debate
Revives
- New York Times: April 24, 2001
- Preserving the Birthplaces of the
Atom Bomb
- New York Times: April 7, 2001
- "Louis Slotin Sonata"
- A play about the death of a Los Alamos
scientist
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- A Scientist's Tragic Hubris
Attains Critical Mass Onstage
- New York Times Theater review: April 10, 2001
- Theatrical Elegy Recalls a Victim
of Nuclear Age
- New York Times: April 3, 2001
- Laser Project Hits a Snag; Court Hints
At Conflict
- New York Times: March 30, 2001
- Ill Uranium Miners Left Waiting as
Payments for Exposure Lapse
- New York Times: March 27, 2001
- Bush Targets Russia Nuclear
Programs for Cuts
- Washington Post: March 18, 2001
- Suit Accuses Federal
Contractors of Mishandling Cleanup at Nuclear Lab
- New York Times: February 19, 2001
- New York Times review of the Wen Ho Lee
case
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- The Making of a Suspect: The Case of
Wen Ho Lee
- New York Times: February 4, 2001
- The Prosecution Unravels: The Case
of Wen Ho Lee
- New York Times: February 5, 2001
- Controversy regarding use of ``Depleted Uranium''
(DU)
- Possible health effects of use of DU in the Balkans
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- Leukemias
from Military Use of Depleted Uranium
- Bernard L. Cohen in Spring 2001 newsletter of the Forum on
Physics and Society of the American Physical Society
- Fray in Europe Over Uranium Draws
Doubters
- New York Times: January 13, 2001
- Depleted uranium: explanation
and WWW links
- The Guardian (UK): January 9, 2001
- Depleted uranium
Web archive
- Belgrade University Faculty of Law (Yugoslavia)
- Related
Information Sources - Depleted Uranium
- World Information Service on Energy (Netherlands)
- Italy Asks NATO to Check Deaths
Tied to Uranium
- New York Times: January 6, 2001
2000
- Testing the Aging Stockpile in a
Test Ban Era
- The New York Times: November 28, 2000
- Champion of Human Survival Tries to
Awaken Academics to a Nuclear Menace
- The New York Times: November 18, 2000
- Eyeing U.S. Missile Defense, Russia
Wants Less Offense
- The New York Times: November 15, 2000
- A Great Hope of Physics Falls on Hard
Times The National Ignition Facility
- The New York Times: September 26, 2000
- The Times and Wen Ho Lee (From
the Editors)
- The New York Times: September 26, 2000
- Chinese
espionage(?)–an index
- The Washington Post: August 25, 2000
- A Sad Record of Submarine
Disasters
- The New York Times: August 16, 2000
- A New Nuclear Reactor Sheds
Only Some Light on Brazil
- The New York Times: August 2, 2000
- The Myth of Perfect Nuclear
Security by Richard Rhodes
- The New York Times (Op-Ed): July 24, 2000
- Ruth Werner, 93, Colorful and
Daring Soviet Spy dies (Klaus Fuchs's English courier)
- The New York Times: July 23, 2000
- Marcus Oliphant Dies at 98;
Helped Develop Atom Bomb
- The New York Times: July 18, 2000
- The play Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
- About the 1941 meeting between Werner Heisenberg and Niels
Bohr
- Heisenberg and Bohr
- New York Times: February 16, 2002 (letter)
- 'Copenhagen' Is Fiction
- New York Times: February 12, 2002 (letter)
- Frayn Takes Stock of Bohr
Revelations
- New York Times: February 9, 2002
- New Twist on Physicist's Role in
Nazi Bomb
- New York Times: February 7, 2002
- Details of Nazis' A-Bomb
Program Surface
- New York Times: January 7, 2002
- Hitler's bomb chief
betrayed nuclear secret
- Sunday Times (London): January 6, 2002
- Secret Trove May Resolve
'Copenhagen'
- New York Times: October 20, 2001
- Copenhagen
and beyond: Drama meets history of science
- Symposium in Copenhagen organised by the Niels Bohr Archive:
22-23 September, 2001
- "Creating
Copenhagen"
- CUNY Symposium (March 27, 2000)
- Re- "Creating Copenhagen" at
CUNY Symposium (March 27, 2000)
- APS News:
June 2000
- A Historical Perspective on
"Copenhagen"
- by David Cassidy, author of "Uncertainty"
- Werner
Heisenberg compiled by David Cassidy
- Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of
Physics
- Werner Heisenberg & Albert
Einstein
- by Gerald Holton, Harvard University
- Postscript to
Copenhagen
- by Michael Frayn
- The German Uranium Project by Hans
Bethe
- Physics Today -
online July, 2000
- A Strange New Quantum
Physics a review by Jonothan Logan
- American Scientists' Bookshelf: July-August 2000
- A Friendship's Fission
(a review)
- Science magazine 14 Apr 2000, pp. 278-279
- Frayn's 'Copenhagen' Plays
Well, at History's Expense by Paul Lawrence Rose
- Chronicle of Higher Education: May 5, 2000
- Nuclear Physicists Hit
Broadway
- Wired News: Mar. 31, 2000
- Revisiting German
Physicist's Failure
- New York Times: March 28, 2000
- Of Physics, Friendship
and Nazi Germany's Atomic Bomb Efforts
- New York Times: March 21, 2000
- The Unanswered Question by Thomas
Powers
- New York Review of Books: May 25, 2000
- An evening with the Bohrs by
John Ziman
- Review from Institute of Physics (UK) 26 June 1998
- U.S. Abandons Plan to Build
a Nuclear-Waste Incinerator.
- New York Times: March 20, 2000
- C.I.A. Official Chosen for Weapons
Agency.
- Associated Press/New York Times: March 3, 2000
- Moscow Takes Step to Ease
U.S. Fears on Plutonium Use.
- New York Times: February 7, 2000
- Nuclear Anxieties in a New
World
- New York Times: February 5, 2000
- Knesset explodes in first
nuclear debate.
- Ha'aretz (Israel): February 3, 2000
- Scientists Find Plutonium
Has Aging Problem.
- New York Times: January 25, 2000. But see also letter of February 1, 2000.
- Accident Makes Japan Re-Examine
A-Plants.
- New York Times: January 23, 2000
1999
- Israel Eases Secrecy Over
Nuclear Whistle-Blower's Trial.
- New York Times: November 25, 1999
- Cold War Without End by
Jacob Weisberg
- New York Times Sunday Magazine November 28, 1999
- Theodore Alvin Hall, Who at 19 Gave Soviets Atomic Secrets,
Dies at 74. Obituary from
- New York Times or Associated Press, 10 November, 1999
- A Threat Mostly to
Ourselves
- Paul Nitze in New York Times: October 28, 1999
- U.S. Once Deployed 12,000 Atom
Arms in 2 Dozen Nations
- New York Times: October 20, 1999
- Where they were: Between 1945 and
1977, the United States based thousands of nuclear weapons abroad.
Note: This is the text of an article, a PDF document.
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: November/December 1999
- U.S. plans tours at former
test site: Nevada facility, deserted for years, shows signs of
life.
- Detroit News: October 17, 1999 (Associated Press)
- 32 Nobel Laureates in
Physics Back Atomic Test Ban.
- New York Times: October 6, 1999
- Both Parties Seek Graceful
Way to Put Off Nuclear Treaty Vote.
- New York Times: October 6, 1999
- Atomic Plant in Japan
Used Illegal Process: 'Faster' Procedure Resulted in
Accident.
- Washington Post: October 3, 1999
- Nuclear Accident Stuns
Japan: Burst of Radiation Injures Plant Workers, Traps 300,000
Residents.
- Washimgton Post: October 1, 1999
- Japanese Fuel Plant Spews
Radiation After Accident.
- New York Times: October 1, 1999
- Nuclear Site Is Battling
a Rising Tide of Waste.
- New York Times: September 27, 1999
- U.S. Will Broaden
Investigation of China Nuclear Secrets Case.
- New York Times: September 23, 1999
- 2 Groups Fight Nuclear
Incinerator Project Near Yellowstone.
- New York Times: September 17, 1999
- The Great-Grandmother Who Came
in From the Cold.
- New York Times: September 13, 1999
- Spies Versus Sweat: The Debate
Over China's Nuclear Advance.
- New York Times Special Report: September 7, 1999
- G.O.P. Letter Plays on
Nuclear Threat to Spur Donations.
- New York Times: September 4, 1999
- Greens Say They'll Quit French
Government if It Plans New A-Plants.
- New York Times: August 30, 1999
- In Harm's Way, But in the Dark
Workers exposed to radiation at Paducah, KY plant.
- Washington Post: August 8, 1999
- Japanese resent A-bomb
earrings.
- Detroit News (AP): August 8, 1999
- New Questions Plague
Nuclear Waste Storage Plan.
- New York Times: August 10, 1999
- Britain cancels nuclear shipment to
Japan after protest.
- Reuters: July 19, 1999
- Maneuvers Show Russian
Reliance on Nuclear Arms; Atomic Attack Simulated.
- New York Times: July 10, 1999
- Systems Designed to
Hold a Homemade Sun controlled fusion research.
- New York Times: June 8, 1999
- Unsecure Codes Are Recipes
for A-Bombs, Experts Say alleged Chinese theft of
"secrets."
- New York Times: April 29, 1999
- Missile Test Success! Next Time We'll
Hit the Target
- New York Times: April 18, 1999
- U.S. Fires Nuclear Scientist Suspected
of Spying for China
- New York Times: March 9, 1999
1998
- Plutonium fuel approved: State
utilities show some interest, but critics are worried.
- Detroit News: Novemver 29, 1998
- Bonn Proposes That NATO Pledge
No-First-Use of Nuclear Weapons
- Washington Post: November 23, 1998
- Investors Not Told of Nuclear
Plant Safety Issues, Group Says
- New York Times: September 16, 1998
- Radon More Dangerous in Air Than in
Water, Study Finds
- New York Times: September 16, 1998
- An Iraqi Defector Warns of Iraq's
Nuclear Weapons Research
- New York Times: August 15, 1998
- Fusion-Research Effort Draws
Fire
- New York Times: July 15, 1998
- Government Planning to Privatize Uranium
Enrichment Operations
- New York Times: June 30, 1998
- A New Role Marketed for the Grim Nevada
Test Site
- New York Times: June 21, 1998 (Real Estate Section!)
- So Far So Good as Chemical
Weapons Are Burned in Utah, Officials Say
- New York Times: April 13, 1998
- Edison to close nuke plant. Utility
doesn't plan to renew license for Fermi II in 2025. Shutdown cost
is pegged at $3 billion.
- Detroit News: April 12, 1998
- Lab to Make More Triggers For
H-Bombs Goal: Keeping Stockpile Of Warheads Reliable
- Washington Post: April 2, 1998
- Budapest recognizes Szilard and the
other Martians.
- New York Times: March 20, 1998
- What about Russian
plutonium?
- New York Times: February 1, 1998
- U.S. Mixing Nuclear Work
and Academia, Reports Says
- New York Times: January 25, 1998
- Nation's Biggest Atomic Utility to Shut
2 Units
- New York Times: January 16, 1998
- Fuel and Cost Are Keys to Nuclear
Power Plants.
- New York Times: January 2, 1998
1997
- Taiwan-Born Scientist Passed Defense
Data
Ex-Los Alamos Worker Gave Secrets to China
- Washington Post: December 12, 1997
- Brookhaven Reactor Decision Is
Delayed as Pressures Grow
- New York Times: December 12, 1997
- The Bomb and the Button
- New York Times Editorial: December 9, 1997
- With Radiation, FDA Beefs Up Arsenal
Against Food Poisoning
- Washington Post: December 8, 1997
- Clinton Directive Changes
Strategy On Nuclear Arms
- Washington Post: December 7, 1997
- U.S. Converts Use Of Uranium, From
Weapons to Fuel
- Associated Press, December 7, 1997
- Government Liable for Nuclear Waste
Delay
- Washington Post: November 16, 1997
- Word for Word: The Cuban
Missile Crisis 35 years later
- New York Times Week in Review : October 5, 1997
- "Building a more secure and
prosperous world for the 21st century"
- President Clinton's United Nations Address, Monday, September
22, 1997
- Doubt Cast on Prime Site as
Nuclear Waste Dump
- New York Times: June 20, 1997
- Letter from Hans
Bethe to President Clinton urging
- cessation of development of new nuclear weapons: April 25,
1997
