Can We Count on Missile Defense?
With Craig Eisendrath and Melvin A. Goodman. Although the threat to the U.S. should not be ignored, it does not justify the rush to deployment of national missile defense systems. USA Today Magazine...
View ArticleSmarter Use of Nuclear Waste
Scientific American (December 2005) Coauthors: William H. Hannum and George S. Stanford Reprinted in Oil and the Future of Energy by The Editors of Scientific American Magazine (The Lyons Press, 2007),...
View ArticleForum on Physics and Society of the American Physical Society
Articles appearing in Physics & Society Bombs, Reprocessing, and Reactor-Grade Plutonium (April 2006) Coauthor: George S. Stanford (PDF) Nuclear Power and Proliferation (January 2006) Coauthor:...
View ArticleRecycling Nuclear Waste
American Physical Society Special Session on Nuclear Reprocessing, Nuclear Proliferation, and Terrorism (15 April 2007) Coauthors: William H. Hannum and George S. Stanford In the public mind, the...
View ArticleInitiatives to Enhance Nuclear Stability and Non-Proliferation in the 21st...
Physics & Society Vol. 38, No.3 (July 2009). Coauthored with George S. Stanford. Three initiatives that the Obama Administration can undertake that would greatly increase nuclear stability and...
View ArticleAre U.S. Nuclear Weapons Reliable?
An exchange in Nature on the reliability of of U.S. nuclear weapons and the need for the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW). Nature 12Nov09-Warheads
View ArticleDeployed Nuclear Weapons and Force Structure
If the number of nuclear weapons is to be further reduced in the future, it is important that they be deployed in a survivable mode if their reduction is not to lead to an increased probability of use....
View ArticleFrom Hiroshima to Today
This is a Convocation Lecture given at Monmouth College on 18 November 2003. It was given in the context of Technology and the Human Condition and is still relevant today. MONMOUTH COLLEGE LECTURE
View ArticleBORN SECRET: The H-Bomb, the Progressive Case and National Security
By A. DeVolpi, G.E. Marsh, T.A. Postol, and G.S. Stanford. Born Secret looks at the widely publicized Progressive magazine case and the U.S. government’s then unprecedented attempt to prevent...
View ArticleDeployed Nuclear Weapons and Force Structure-II
Recently, Sir Menzies Campbell wrote in the Financial Times that British nuclear doctrine should be redrawn in ways that might no longer require the Trident submarines that are currently the basis of...
View ArticleA NUCLEAR BOMB WORTH MORE THAN ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD
In the December 2013 issue of Physics Today David Kramer tells us—in an article titled A nuclear bomb worth more than its weight in gold?—that “some critics of the B-61 life extension program question...
View ArticleENERGY FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE
(with S. Fred Singer) Many people believe that wind and solar energy are essential for replacing nonrenewable fossil fuels. They also believe that wind and solar are unique in providing energy that’s...
View ArticleNYT: “A Nuclear Legacy Within Reach”
The 8 August 2016 lead editorial of the New York Times made a financial argument against modernization of the nuclear arsenal — including the land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles. They then...
View ArticleSTICKS “TRUMP” CARROTS FOR NORTH KOREA
If the US and Japan could make it clear to China that the consequence of inaction would be a nuclear armed Japan that might be an adequate incentive. USA TODAY MAGAZINE (September 2017) USA Today...
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CROSSING THE RED LINE: THE NUCLEAR OPTION
This book addresses the incentives to develop nuclear weapons, what it takes to do so, and some of the technical aspects of nuclear and ballistic missile programs. It uses the North Korean program as...
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