Here is a list of some possible paper topics. It is not intended to be complete, but illustrates subjects, some of which have been used by previous students. You should use the list only for reference, and choose a topic of your own (preferably not one on this list).

Arms control

Atmospheric Testing

Atoms for Peace

Biographical subject

Bomb in children's literature

Bomb in fiction

Bomb in film

Bomb in music

Bomb in poetry

Bomb in popular culture

Chernobyl: The nucear disaster and its consequences

Chernobyl

Civil defense

Cuban Missile Crisis

Decision to drop the bomb

Decision: The Soviet element

Espionage, real and other

Forged by the Sword: French resistance to the Bomb

French bomb effort

From ``Looking Backward'' to ``Woman on the edge of Time''

German Bomb effort

H-Bomb

Hibakusha

Hypocrisy and injustice at a Federal level (JRO)

``In the Matter of JRO'' in fact and drama

Influence of the A-Bomb on Film genre

Israel and its Nuclear capabilities

Israeli bomb effort

JRO, his students, and McCarthyism

Lawrence and JRO

Legacy of the Gouzenko story

Livermore

McCarthy

National Laboratory at Hanford

Neutron Bomb

No surprise: A-Bombs in the popular press, 1937-47

Nuclear Checkers? France's dangerous game ...

Nuclear Strategy in the '90s

Nuclear Time Bomb (Chernobyl Sarcophagus

Nuclear accidents

Nuclear submarines

Oppenheimer security hearings

Postwar growth of Hiroshima

Present proliferation practices

Psychological aspects of the Nuclear era

Psychological impact of the Bomb

Psychological implications of the dropping of the A-Bomb

Radiation testing on Human Subjects ...

Running of a Nuclear Spy; Why Israel took the risk

SALT negotiations

Science advisors

Soviet bomb effort

Star Wars: A plausible defense ...

Star Wars: An overview

Strategic bombing

Survivors' writings

Teller and JRO

Test ban negotiations

Testing in Nevada

Testing in the Pacific

Three Mile Island

Truman, MacArthur and the Bomb

Underground Testing

What does an Atomic Bomb do?

Women at Los Alamos