Terror and the bomb

Terror and the bomb
A series of editorials on the modern nuclear danger

`Potatoes were guarded better'


September 8, 2004. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the world
got a peek behind the fearsome facade.

Closing the nuclear loophole


September 5, 2004. In late 2002, North Korea shocked the world when it
was revealed that the nation was running a nuclear weapons program.

How to halt nuclear terrorists


September 1, 2004. For decades, the Cold War standoff between the
Soviet Union and America contributed, paradoxically, to a sense of security.

The new nuclear nightmare


August 29, 2004. About half a century ago, President Dwight Eisenhower
and his aides had what seemed to be a brilliant idea to avert a nuclear
arms race.