Why Is America Getting a New $100 Billion Nuclear Weapon?
The Air Force, beholden to corporate forces, is trapped in a contract with Northrop Grumman to rebuild the nuke program.
The Air Force, beholden to corporate forces, is trapped in a contract with Northrop Grumman to rebuild the nuke program.
Elisabeth Eaves Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Feb 2021 35min Permalink
The Department of Energy is in chaos and it is putting the world at risk.
Michael Lewis Vanity Fair Jul 2017 40min Permalink
For decades a group of radical Catholics, many of them nuns, have been keeping up the good fight against nuclear weapons.
Eric Schlosser New Yorker Mar 2015 1h15min Permalink
The story of three peace activists — a drifter, an 82-year-old nun and a house painter — who penetrated the exterior of Y-12 in Tennessee, supposedly one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities in the United States.
Dan Zak Washington Post Apr 2013 40min Permalink
Looking for holes in the world’s nuclear security.
William Langewiesche The Atlantic Dec 2006 40min Permalink
Did A.Q. Khan sell nuclear secrets on the black market? The fame had unbalanced him. He was subjected to a degree of public acclaim rarely seen in the West—an extreme close to idol worship, which made him hungry for more. Money seems never to have been his obsession, but it did play a role.
William Langewiesche The Atlantic Jan 2006 55min Permalink
The unlikely ascent of A.Q. Khan, the scientist who gave Pakistan the Bomb, and his suspicious fall from grace.
William Langewiesche The Atlantic Nov 2005 1h Permalink
A year after dozens died protesting his election and hundreds more were imprisoned, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad grants a rare interview to an American journalist.
John Lee Anderson New Yorker Aug 2010 30min Permalink