1.   Arms controllers worry that even without real nuclear explosions, weapons scientists will make remarkable progress, using new tools like computer-simulated bomb blasts.

2.   As a result, there has been opposition to subjecting key weapons scientists to polygraph examinations, while security training efforts at the laboratories have been dismal.

3.   Baker promised to help set up an international scientific center to generate civilian projects for former weapons scientists.

4.   Former germ weapons scientists say that neither is easy.

5.   Most germ weapons scientists familiar with Vozrozhdeniye said there was little immediate danger to the local population.

6.   Q. How did you perceive the marriages and personal relationships of your weapons scientists?

7.   Ray E. Kidder, a Livermore physicist who helped pioneer hydrogen bombs, said small-scale thermonuclear research was attractive to weapon scientists in the absence of underground test explosions.

8.   Richard Garwin, a veteran weapons scientist, calculated the effects of exploding a bomb, mixed with one kilogram of plutonium, in Munich on a still day.

9.   Some scientists fear that an independent weapons agency would make it harder for weapons scientists to cross back and forth to the world of civilian research.

10.   Some, especially weapon scientists, say the prospect of success is often greatly exaggerated.