Disposition of Excess Plutonium
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and United States produced huge quantities of
plutonium for weapons.…
In early 2003, Osama bin Laden sought and
received from a radical Saudi cleric a religious
ruling, or fatwa, that the use of a nuclear bomb…
Matthew Bunn argues that plutonium disposition—physically transforming it into a form that would be difficult and costly to recover for use…
How did the conflict between Vietnamese nationalists and French colonial rulers erupt into a major Cold War struggle between communism and…