Society, Issues, Warfare and Conflict, Weapons, Nuclear
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- Reporter Ron Gluckman provides an in-depth analysis of Wen Ho Lee, in a story that asks whether there really was a spook in Los Alamos or a mere victim of a racist witch hunt?
- Information on a workshop for physics teachers who wish to explore creation of a general education course or units about the effects of the nuclear policies of nations.
- Outlaw labs information on the atomic bomb. Includes history, descriptions and diagrams.
- Computer model designed for analyzing the nuclear weapons problem. Allows assessment of effects and answers questions about nuclear war scenarios. Other info including news, photos and audio clips.
- Information and numerous links related to nuclear bombs, nuclear tests, risks and secrets.
- NTI, founded by Ted Turner and Sam Nunn, features daily news and in-depth resources/analysis on the threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Research library with country and issue briefs, and comprehensive nonproliferation databases.
- Documents that during the most dangerous phases of the U.S.-Soviet confrontation during the early 1960s top military commanders had presidentially-authorized instructions providing advance authority to use nuclear weapons under specified emergency conditi
- A report by the Los Alamos Study Group on the B61-11 nuclear gravity bomb, a modified weapon entering the arsenal in early 1997 and designed to burrow underground and destroy hardened targets (February 10, 1997).
- Counter punch article discusses the development and use of small low yield deep penetrator war heads.
- A guide to nuclear weapons. Links to nuclear test images. Provides current information, technical data, and informative write-ups.
- Graphic animations show what gives nuclear bombs such immense power and what the long-term dangers are.
- Designed as a tool for teachers and students looking at the incredible feat required to develop the atomic bomb. Looks at the people involved, the science, and the other countries in the race.
- Information on US nuclear weapons laboratories, weapons testing, and environmental and economical concerns arising from production of weapons of mass destruction.
- Information and educational materials related to PBS film. Interactive features: enter the name of a town to see the damage zone if a nuclear weapon were detonated.
- Short overview of the A-bomb and hydrogen bomb. Includes history of nuclear weapons and multimedia clips.
- Federation of American Scientist report on US development of a new generation of precision low-yield nuclear weapons.
- Encyclopedia article discussing types of weapons, their design, effects, and delivery.
- Describes a new generation of penetrator N-bombs, like the B61-11, capable of destroying deeply-buried targets. Designed to counter the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction with a nuclear weapon for smaller targets.
- Reports on global security, arms control, military affairs, as well as nuclear issues. Back articles are available online.
- Updated and expanded 1987 edition by Cresson H. Kearny with foreword by Dr.Edward Teller Original edition published September, 1979, by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
- Resources on the study of a full range of security issues, including not only traditional issues of non-proliferation, but also the impact of environmental, economic, energy, and health conditions on global security.
- Quasi-autonomous agency within DOE, established to oversee the nuclear weapons program and related activities.
- Explore the complex history surrounding the invention of the atomic bomb - a crucial turning point for all mankind. Follow a time line of nuclear history to today. CD-ROM for sale.
- Egyptian Nuclear Physics Association communique on depleted uranium and describes a site visit of the Al-tuwaitha, Iraq nuclear facility destroyed during the Gulf War.
- The government built a nuclear-weapons plant sixteen miles upwind of Denver. But decades passed before the public got wind of what was happening there. By Eileen Welsome of Westword Online.
- Provides Russian citizens and policy makers with information about nuclear weapons, arms control and disarmament based on open scientific analysis.
- Department of Defense. May 1997.
- Symposium proceedings of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences in 1985. Discusses the human and environmental consequences in detail of nuclear war.
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