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THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION WIPED OUT THE HUGE ARMS INDUSTRY IN THAT COUNTRY. MOST OF THE SCIENTISTS WHO DESIGNED AND BUILT THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION LOST THEIR JOBS. NPR'S ANNE GARRELS REPORTS ON A NEW PROGRAM FUNDED BY THE UNITED STATES TO KEEP THEM HOME IN RUSSIA SO THEY WON'T TAKE THEIR EXPERTISE TO THE ROGUE NATIONS OF THE WORLD.

HOST SUSAN STAMBERG SPEAKS WITH JOHN WHITESIDE, CITY EDITOR FOR THE JOLIET HERALD NEWS, ABOUT MOLLY ZELKO. SHE WAS A JOURNALIST WHO REPORTED ON THE MOB AND DISAPPEARED ONE NIGHT IN 1957. THE CASE HAS RECENTLY BEEN REOPENED AFTER A MOB INFORMANT TOLD POLICE ZELkO WAS BURIED IN A CITY SIDEWALK IN JOLIET, ILLINOIS.

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports from Oklahoma City that residents there are anxiously awaiting the verdict in the Timothy McVeigh bombing trial being held in Denver. Many of them gathered today at a fence surrounding what used to be the Alfred Murrah Federal Building to lay wreaths, flowers and other items in memory of those lost in the blast two years ago.

Michelle Corum of Interlochen Public Radio has a report on a paramilitary group in Michigan called the Northern Michigan Regional Militia. The group says it is preparing to the day when it will have to protect itself and others against "those who break the constitution" at home and abroad. But, some law enforcement and civil rights organizations are worried that such groups will go from extremism to terrorism.

NPR'S JOANNE SILBERNER REPORTS THAT PRESIDENT CLINTON'S NOMINATION OF DR. HENRY FOSTER, AN OBSTETRICIAN/GYNECOLOGIST AND FORMER HEAD OF MEHARRY (meh-HARRY) MEDICAL COLLEGE IN TENNESSEE, TO THE POSITION OF U.S. SURGEON GENERAL MAY BE IN QUESTION BECAUSE OF THE NEWS THAT HE HAS PERFORMED ABORTIONS.

Liane Hansen speaks with NPR reporter Linda Gradstein bout two explosions which tore through a crowded army bus station this orning just outside the Israeli resort town of Netanya (nay-TAHN-yuh). More han a dozen people, most of them soldiers, were killed, and more than 50 njured.

Most military training flight paths are routed hrough the least populated areas of the United States. This cuts down on the oise polution and other potential disturbances in metropolitan and suburban merica. Malcolm Howard reports that the military has announced plans to expand ts military flight areas, and many of the country's rural residents are up in rms.

AFTER HAVING BEEN FIRED FROM THE NAACP LAST YEAR, THE ORGANIZATION'S FORMER PRESIDENT, DR. BENJAMIN CHAVIS HAS FOUND A NEW CAREER. THIS MORNING HE LAUNCHES A NEW WEEKLY RADIO TALK SHOW CALLED "THE FREEDOM JOURNAL" ON SIX BLACK-ORIENTED STATIONS IN THE BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON AREA. NPR'S LAURA KNOY REPORTS.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH TRUDY LIEBERMAN, SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE EDITOR FOR CONSUMER REPORTS MAGAZINE, ABOUT AN INVESTIGATION SHE PARTICIPATED IN REGARDING NURSING HOMES AROUND THE COUNTRY. THE FIRST OF THE FINDINGS APPEAR IN THIS MONTH'S ISSUE, AND THE SECOND AND THIRD PARTS OF THE MAGAZINE'S SERIES ON CARE FOR THE ELDERLY WILL APPEAR IN THE SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER ISSUES.

The dropping of the atomic bomb on the apanese city of Hiroshima ushered in the dawn of the nuclear age. From iroshima, NPR reporter Julie McCarthy covers the 50th anniversary memorial eremony being held in Peace Park, which was built near ground zero in memory of he victims of the destructive bomb that ended the second World War.