Nuclear weapons

A short history of nuclear weapons was published by the Seattle Times on the 50th anniversary of the bomb.

  • Union of Concerned Scientists Has info about nuclear power as well.
  • The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Home of The Clock
  • Federation of American Scientists
  • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • Missile Defense Agency
  • Center for Defense Information
  • Dirty Bombs from PBS | from FAS
  • Depleted uranium was used as amunition in Gulf Wars I and II and in Yugoslavia and Chechnya. What's the deal? Is depleted uranium really a health threat? Fact sheet from the World Health Organization. More Info from the Federation of American Scientists and World Information Service on Energy. See also the Uranium Medical Research Center.
  • The Wikipedia article on nuclear weapons is a reasonable place for more context.