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Filename: bullatsci.bib
Version: 2.50
Date: 19 March 2024
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This is a COMPLETE bibliography of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (CODEN BASIAP, ISSN 0096-3402 (print), 1938-3282 (electronic), ISSN-L 0096-3402). It also includes selected entries for books and a few articles from other journals on the subject of nuclear issues.
At version 2.50, the year coverage looked like this:
1945 ( 18) 1972 ( 173) 1999 ( 141)
1946 ( 207) 1973 ( 161) 2000 ( 128)
1947 ( 159) 1974 ( 149) 2001 ( 146)
1948 ( 175) 1975 ( 209) 2002 ( 127)
1949 ( 143) 1976 ( 238) 2003 ( 116)
1950 ( 161) 1977 ( 270) 2004 ( 129)
1951 ( 159) 1978 ( 246) 2005 ( 128)
1952 ( 166) 1979 ( 251) 2006 ( 117)
1953 ( 171) 1980 ( 248) 2007 ( 122)
1954 ( 219) 1981 ( 260) 2008 ( 70)
1955 ( 165) 1982 ( 253) 2009 ( 51)
1956 ( 137) 1983 ( 264) 2010 ( 62)
1957 ( 161) 1984 ( 304) 2011 ( 63)
1958 ( 156) 1985 ( 310) 2012 ( 65)
1959 ( 155) 1986 ( 264) 2013 ( 55)
1960 ( 185) 1987 ( 281) 2014 ( 73)
1961 ( 202) 1988 ( 279) 2015 ( 69)
1962 ( 231) 1989 ( 307) 2016 ( 88)
1963 ( 210) 1990 ( 344) 2017 ( 80)
1964 ( 169) 1991 ( 303) 2018 ( 60)
1965 ( 180) 1992 ( 262) 2019 ( 52)
1966 ( 164) 1993 ( 273) 2020 ( 76)
1967 ( 178) 1994 ( 197) 2021 ( 65)
1968 ( 176) 1995 ( 220) 2022 ( 63)
1969 ( 218) 1996 ( 186) 2023 ( 58)
1970 ( 153) 1997 ( 188) 2024 ( 8)
1971 ( 169) 1998 ( 195)
Article: 13331
Book: 84
InCollection: 16
Misc: 1
PhdThesis: 1
Proceedings: 1
Total entries: 13434
Data for all issues for volumes 1--54 that are available in the Google Books Project archive (see below) have been incorporated here after much tedious labor of manual data entry from page images, but sadly, some issues appear to be missing from that archive. All of the missing content, except for two pages at the end of volume 6 number 3 March 1950, has been recovered from other sources.
The group known as the Atomic Scientists of Chicago published the journal as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists of Chicago with volume 1, number 1, on 10 December 1945 to volume 1, number 6, in March 1946. The title was shortened to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at volume 1, number 7 of March 15, 1946, and publication continued until volume 64, number 5 of November / December 2008.
Most early issues of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists have one or two unnumbered pages at the end, usually with letters to the Editor. In this bibliography, they are assigned page numbers that follow the last numbered page in that issue. In some cases, that produces page-number overlap with the first article in the next issue. There is evidence in some issues that the Bulletin published letters in the issue back matter, or on the back covers.
The group has a Web site at
In 2009, the journal was continued as an online-only publication by Sage Science Press, which maintains Web sites for volumes for the years 1999--date at
http://bos.sagepub.com/content/by/year
http://bos.sagepub.com/
http://online.sagepub.com/00963402
In early 2013, there appear to be serious Web link issues at those Web sites: DOIs fail to lead directly to articles; instead, they resolve to the top-level site. Also, links at that site sometimes do not lead to expected content.
Early volumes of the journal had 10 to 12 issues per year, but after the Sage Science Press acquisition, there are usually only 6 annual issues, labeled with odd/even month pairs.
In 2016, publishing moved from Sage to Taylor and Francis, with a new Web site at
http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rbul20
Although this journal has published many important papers about post-World War II nuclear topics, and Manhattan-Project-era work, surprisingly, there does not yet appear to be an adequate online archive of journal issues before 1999.
The Google Books Project at
http://thebulletin.org/archive
http://books.google.com/books?id=9gsAAAAAMBAJ
appears to contain many of those pre-1999 issues. Although page images are available, they are only bitmaps, without searchable, or copyable, text, with no linking from one issue to the next, and without any printable files. There is no index of author / title / volume / number / pages / month / year data that could, if it contained adequate structural markup, be used to derive BibTeX entries.
There is a commercial archive for Bulletin issues from January 1993 to March 2005 at
http://www.highbeam.com/publications/bulletin-of-the-atomic-scientists-p3991
However, the issue pages there provide only lists of titles, without author and pages data, and the links lead only to a paragraph or two of each article, with payment required for further access.
There is another commercial archive of the Bulletin for January 1984 (volume 40, number 1) to date at
but the search access is poor, and it appears impossible to predict the address of the Web page for any issue. Also, the recorded bibliographic data is far too often inaccurate, incomplete, or incorrect, so such data have since been entirely replaced in this bibliography by data from journal page images.
The University of Chicago Library maintains the Guide to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Records 1945--1984:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.BULLETIN
That library also hold the papers of Bulletin co-founder, and long-time Bulletin editor, the Guide to the Eugene I. Rabinowitch Papers 1945--1972:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.RABINOWITCH
For reprints of collections of articles from the Bulletin, see entries Anonymous:1947:ICA, Rabinowitch:1950:MMI, Anonymous:1958:VDT, Grodzins:1963:AAS, Anonymous:1965:EBA, Rabinowitch:1967:DAM, Anonymous:1968:WCB, Anonymous:1969:CACb, Anonymous:1975:NAL, Wilson:1975:AOTc, and Ackland:1986:ANA.
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Bibliographer's notes
In mid-July 2013, at version 1.15 of this bibliography, there were about 3000 entries, and no other sources of machine-readable data appeared to be available to fill in the holes, despite extensive Web searching to locate such material.
A comparison of the existing BibTeX entries against the Google Books Project page scans showed many discrepancies, and estimates of the number of missing articles indicated that perhaps only 1/5 to 1/4 of all published articles in the Bulletin had so far been located.
Because of this importance of the Bulletin for the history of the 20th Century and the Cold War, and for the several bibliographies of quantum physicists in the BibNet Project archives, it was therefore decided that the only way to resolve the problem was a hugely-laborious task of page-by-page examination of the online journal page scans, with manual creation of BibTeX entries for every article.
That work began in August 2013, and by version 1.84 on 12 November 2013, coverage was nearly complete for 1945 to 2013. The number of recorded articles had more than quadrupled, and most existing entries had received corrections. On 13 November 2013, the remaining holes were filled by examination of page-image PDF files from the EBSCO database, and the file version number was advanced to 2.00, and the title in the LaTeX wrapper file was modified to reflect the now-complete coverage.
Reading the Bulletin is sometimes difficult, because its magazine-style layout splits many articles into pieces, and sometimes, interleaves articles.
In addition, there are many interesting framed sidebars within articles that are sometimes written by the article authors, or by others, or without author attribution. Those sidebars have been given their own BibTeX entries.
Letters to the editor are also problematic, because their authors are usually recorded only at the end, forcing much backtracking during online reading. Also, the letters frequently carry important commentary about previous articles, so most of those pairs are mutually cross-referenced.
All acronyms in titles have been expanded in keywords values in the same entry. In addition, because titles of letters to the editor are often shortened to two to five words, additional keywords and/or remarks data are sometimes supplied to describe the subject of the letter.
For untitled, and insufficiently-titled, articles, square-bracketed phrases are sometimes inserted by the bibliographer for clarification.
When titles are part of a common named theme used in article mastheads, that theme is included as a prefix in titles to identify related articles.
There are more than 1350 book reviews in the Bulletin, and almost all of them required manual preparation of BibTeX entries. Indeed, the letters, and book and film reviews, account for more than half the time required to create BibTeX entries for each issue.
As a result, the bibliographer decided to include only book title and author information, but to exclude publisher, page count, and price information. At some future time, those data might be added, but it seems preferable to avoid that work, and instead, supply BibTeX entries for the books themselves. Book titles are wrapped in a \booktitle{} macro to allow them to be typeset in a different font, as well as to allow their easy extraction for catalog searches.
Because library catalogs rarely provide for precise string matching in title searches, the results of such searches generally return many unwanted entries, so addition of book entries will likely have to be put off indefinitely. The bibliographer expects to find some of those book entries in existing BibTeX data in the archives, and extract them automatically via precise SQL searches.
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Data for this bibliography have been collected from numerous sources, including at least these:
* the University of Utah Mathematics Department bibliography archives
* the TeX User Group bibliography
archives at
https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/
* the BibNet Project bibliography
archives at
https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/
* the Karlsruhe Computer Science bibliography archives
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