tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161854092184039674Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:39:24 +0000Author's Bloghttp://blog.h-bombbook.com/noreply@blogger.com (Priscilla McMillan)Blogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161854092184039674.post-1235998886861873158Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:07:00 +00002009-03-08T14:23:01.313-07:00Nuclear PolicyThe fledgling Obama Administration has already made two attempts to change things in the nation's troubled nuclear weapons establishment.The week following the Inauguration, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) told the Departments of Energy and Defense to assess the pros and cons of taking the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which manages the weapons complex, out of the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/priscillamcmillan/~3/RVJmzL1lreY/obama-administration-and-nuclear.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Priscilla McMillan)0http://blog.h-bombbook.com/2009/03/obama-administration-and-nuclear.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161854092184039674.post-8892655066310353238Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:03:00 +00002008-10-08T09:38:03.357-07:00General InterestShock ran through many of us recently when Hillary Clinton raised the specter of Robert Kennedy’s assassination just forty years ago, in June, 1968. Although Mrs. Clinton regarded her comments as innocent, they were shocking precisely because fear for the safety of Barack Obama has been a disquieting undercurrent throughout the primary season. That Mrs. Clinton, whose White House years ought to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/priscillamcmillan/~3/jTNfjsscEnk/hillarys-gaffe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Priscilla McMillan)1http://blog.h-bombbook.com/2008/06/hillarys-gaffe.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161854092184039674.post-8637708843156166951Sun, 04 May 2008 03:43:00 +00002008-05-03T20:48:58.063-07:00Government SecrecyOn April 30, at Senator Russ Feingold’s senate hearing on Secret Law, Steven Aftergood testified and provided a catalog of current forms of “secret law” and its consequences such as promoting arbitrary government behavior and shielding malefactors from accountability. His posting on the Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy is reproduced here, with his permission, with links http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/priscillamcmillan/~3/ymgRcCnd__Y/steve-aftergoods-testimony-to-senate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Priscilla McMillan)0http://blog.h-bombbook.com/2008/05/steve-aftergoods-testimony-to-senate.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161854092184039674.post-3614881961451794708Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:47:00 +00002008-05-03T20:21:00.974-07:00General InterestJohn Archibald Wheeler, who died on April 13, 2008 at the age of 96, was one of the great physicists of the 20th century. Not only that, he was one of the great minds of the 20th century. In 1933, at the age of 22, Wheeler went to Copenhagen to study with the great Danish physicist, Niels Bohr. It was the beginning of a collaboration that was to last until Bohr¹s death in 1962. In 1939, in http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/priscillamcmillan/~3/D7boldoLV9o/in-memorium-john-archibald-wheeler.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Priscilla McMillan)0http://blog.h-bombbook.com/2008/04/in-memorium-john-archibald-wheeler.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161854092184039674.post-1521804592219498499Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:45:00 +00002008-03-10T12:58:13.406-07:00Civil LibertiesIn 1954 the AEC held hearings to determine whether J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance should be revoked. Unknown to him or his attorney, the FBI—authorized by J. Edgar Hoover—was illegally wiretapping his nightly conversations with his lawyer and providing the transcripts to the prosecutor every day.In 2008, Congress is fighting the White House over legislation protectingwarrantless http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/priscillamcmillan/~3/S8_ZuPo_tVQ/protect-us-from-protect-america-act.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Priscilla McMillan)0http://blog.h-bombbook.com/2008/03/protect-us-from-protect-america-act.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161854092184039674.post-6626062583938711597Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:58:00 +00002008-03-10T13:05:59.968-07:00Nuclear PolicyOne of the most important functions of the study of history is to guide us in the present to avoid the mistakes of the past. The 1949 Advisory Group which Oppenheimer chaired, and which made recommendations to Truman on whether to pursue development of the hydrogen bomb, concluded that the h-bomb met no useful military purpose, and should not be pursued. Truman disagreed, and the arms race was http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/priscillamcmillan/~3/J5MeAEJEo2I/use-of-nuclear-weapons-what-have-we.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Priscilla McMillan)3http://blog.h-bombbook.com/2008/02/use-of-nuclear-weapons-what-have-we.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161854092184039674.post-2099571656843476906Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:46:00 +00002008-03-10T13:02:47.284-07:00Oppenheimer WebsiteTom commented that “secrecy is the great theme of Oppenheimer’s life and of American history in our time.” (See comments under “Our Nuclear Past and Present.”)Indeed, secrecy fueled the revocation hearings which destroyed Oppenheimer’s credibility and fanned the fears which gave birth to the early arms race. Those facts have been hidden from the American public for decades, by denying the public http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/priscillamcmillan/~3/yqliCW-3nX4/new-web-site-fights-secrecy-and-lies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Priscilla McMillan)2http://blog.h-bombbook.com/2008/02/new-web-site-fights-secrecy-and-lies.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161854092184039674.post-7794506968919991805Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:33:00 +00002008-03-10T13:04:13.870-07:00Oppenheimer WebsiteAs we leave Super Tuesday behind and the presidential race narrows, candidates' positions on US nuclear policy are bound to receive closer scrutiny.Prior candidates positions on nuclear policy have affected every presidential since the first atomic bomb burst in 1945. For that reason, it is important to remember the days when nuclear policy was first brought to national attention, by the very http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/priscillamcmillan/~3/8phiEtdzCXk/our-nuclear-past-and-present.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Priscilla McMillan)2http://blog.h-bombbook.com/2008/02/our-nuclear-past-and-present.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161854092184039674.post-7665861297533381162Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:00:00 +00002008-03-10T13:05:05.510-07:00Government SecrecyHello all!Priscilla here. Today’s topic is government secrecy.In a secrets-driven nation that spent $43.5 billion on intelligence in 2007, and spent $9.5 billion creating and maintaining classified documents and determining who had the clearances to see them, the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a timely reminder of how secrecy can be easily wielded to violate the rights of individuals.How many http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/priscillamcmillan/~3/Hx6qBrO4nwM/government-secrecy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Priscilla McMillan)1http://blog.h-bombbook.com/2008/01/government-secrecy.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161854092184039674.post-4278517935105856259Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:30:00 +00002008-03-10T13:08:23.315-07:00Oppenheimer WebsiteHello all!My name is Priscilla McMillan. I am the author of a book published in 2005, The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race. I am also the author of Khrushchev and the Arts and Marina and Lee, the story of Lee Harvey Oswald.If you care about nuclear arms control, a more open government, civil liberties, and how America got embroiled in the cold war conflict that http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/priscillamcmillan/~3/cWk3ioXcIRY/lets-talk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Priscilla McMillan)2http://blog.h-bombbook.com/2008/01/lets-talk.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161854092184039674.post-7191185976774077396Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:00:00 +00002008-01-28T15:31:20.137-08:00OppenheimerPhysicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the head of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb in 1945, helping to speed the end of World War Two. Acclaimed as a national hero, he became the US government's chief advisor on nuclear policy after the war.On April 12, 1954, at the height at the McCarthy era, the country was surprised to learn that Oppenheimer was accused of being a security http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/priscillamcmillan/~3/QjgQaHU9MBg/about-my-book.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Priscilla McMillan)1http://blog.h-bombbook.com/2008/01/about-my-book.html