Published Articles
Santa Susana Field Laboratory
"A failure of governmental candor: The fire at the contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory," Daniel Hirsch, February 21, 2019, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
Radiation Safety Standards
"President Trump’s radical attack on radiation safety," Daniel Hirsch, Haakon Williams, Cameron Kuta, October 15, 2025, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
"The NRC: What Me Worry?," Daniel Hirsch, January 1, 2002, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
Nuclear Weapons and Terrorism
The NRC’s Dirty Little Secret, Daniel Hirsch, David Lochbaum and Edwin Lyman, May/June 2003 pp. 44-51 (vol. 59, no. 03) © 2003 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist
Summary: For a quarter of a century, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) kept its dirty little secret: Despite the fact that a successful attack on a U.S. nuclear plant could cause thousands of illnesses and deaths in the surrounding area, and despite the clear increase in terrorist threats over that same period, the commission continued to require the country’s nuclear power plant operators to maintain only a minimal security capability.
"1990: The H-Bomb: Who Really Gave Away the Secret?" Daniel Hirsch and William G. Mathews, December 10, 2025 (Article originally published in the January/February 1990 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 46, Issue 1, pages 22-30), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist.