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Anderson, Herbert L. – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1974
The final installment of the author's recollections of his work with physicists Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard and others in developing the first controlled nuclear chain reaction and in preparing the test explosion of the first atomic bomb. (GS)
Descriptors: Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Weapons, Physics, Radiation
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Frisch, Otto R. – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1974
The author recounts the part he played in the research that led to the development of the atomic bomb. (JP)
Descriptors: Atomic Theory, Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Weapons, Physics
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Miettinen, Jorma K. – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1976
The superpowers are making decisions about tactical and nuclear weapons which may be immutable for Europe for the next 20 years. The maintenance of arsenals for tactical and nuclear weapons should be discussed by more than just the closed circle of professional strategists-by journalists, politicians, philosophers and thoughtful citizens. (BT)
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Decision Making, Disarmament, International Relations
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Villa, Brian Loring – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1975
If the scientists working on the Manhattan Project had realized the consequences of the atomic bomb earlier, formulated their recommendations more precisely, and approached the statesmen in time, American policy on use and control of the bomb might well have been different. (Author/BT)
Descriptors: History, International Relations, Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Warfare
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Krieger, David – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1975
This essay explores the ways terrorist groups may gain possession of nuclear materials; the way in which they may use nuclear weapons and other nuclear technologies to their benefit; and various courses of action designed to minimize the possibilities of terrorists utilizing nuclear technology to their benefit and society's detriment. (BT)
Descriptors: International Crimes, Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Warfare, Nuclear Weapons
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Rotblat, J. – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1977
Discusses the problems of controlling weapons-grade fissionable material. Projections of the growth of fission nuclear reactors indicates sufficient materials will be available to construct 300,000 atomic bombs each containing 10 kilograms of plutonium by 1990. (SL)
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Warfare
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Schwartz, Charles – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1978
This article makes the case that the University of California at Berkeley's nuclear labs at Los Alamos (NM) and Livermore (CA) are really weapons laboratories run by the military. (B B)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Administration, Energy, Environment
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Dowling, John – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1977
Provides a nuclear film bibliography grouped into the areas of: building and using the bomb; living with the bomb; and living with nuclear power. These films are for mature high school students and older. (MLH)
Descriptors: Atomic Theory, Bibliographies, College Science, Energy