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...country." The exile could return to Moscow. At the time of his death from a heart attack in 1989, he was a member of the Congress of People's Deputies, intent on reforming the Soviet constitution. What Sakharov might have conceived and discovered "if not for his work on thermonuclear weapons and human rights" is a reasonable but fundamentally meaningless question, concludes Lourie. "He created himself through his choices," he writes, and "like everyone else, was formed by a fate he did not get to choose." Sakharov, Lourie says, is "as elusive in death as he was in life," something...
...biggest city by blast and heat. Then the radioactive byproducts, drifting with the wind, could turn an area the size of many nations into a silent wilderness...The missilemen are not happy, however. Both civilian and military, they know too well the potential effect on the earth of thermonuclear warfare. They fear that some small, irresponsible nation may get hold of a missile or two and blot out the capital city of a nation that it hates. Or perhaps when the great nations are armed to the teeth with long-range missiles and nervously watching each other, some quick mistake...
...likely that the journalists--as well as the al-Qaeda members--were fooled by a satirical 1979 article that the would-be terrorists found on the Web. A sharp-eyed editor at a site called the Daily Rotten noticed similarities between a facetious article titled "Let's Make a Thermonuclear Device!" which appeared in a now defunct humor publication called Journal of Irreproducible Results, and the language in the Times story, as well as the images on the BBC. A sample passage from the article: "Please remember that Plutonium is somewhat dangerous. Wash your hands with soap and warm water...
Schmidt's group and a rival team led by Saul Perlmutter, of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California, used very similar techniques to make the measurements. They looked for a kind of explosion called a Type Ia supernova, occurring when an aging star destroys itself in a gigantic thermonuclear blast. Type Ia's are so bright that they can be seen all the way across the universe and are uniform enough to have their distance from Earth accurately calculated...
...discovered three computer tapes--VCR-size cassettes in metal jackets--containing downloaded weapons codes. Computer-forensics experts concluded that Lee had used his classified computer in the X Division, where nuclear warheads are designed and assessed, to download voluminous mathematical descriptions of the characteristics and performance of various thermonuclear warheads to an unsecure portion of the computer-storage system. Prosecutors say he stored the data in a subdirectory protected only by a password that consisted of his initials. Then, the evidence showed, he went to another division at Los Alamos and borrowed a colleague's computer that came with...