APS Forum on Physics and Society - January 1998
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Volume 27, Number 1 Jan 1998
Letters
Where Nuclear and High Energy Physicists Went Wrong:
Bernard L. Cohen
A comment
on Terence Kealey's "The Economic Laws of Scientific Research and the review by Allan Walstad: Elmer Eisner
Articles
Liquidating the Cold War
: Thomas L. Neff
Seismic Event 130 kilometers SE of Novaya Zemlya, Aug. 16, 1997, Earthquake or "Clandestine Test"
: Gerald Marsh and Jack F. Evernden
U.S. Missile Defense Activities and the Future of the ABM Treaty
: George Lewis and He Yingbo
How Much Reliability and Yield is Enough for a CTBT?
: David Hafemeister
News
APS Mass Media Fellowship Program for Students
Using Technology for Education: Panel Recommendations
Good (relatively) News for TIMSS
Summer Scare
Physics Education and Employment
End of Cold Fusion
Vindication of APS?
MIR Debate
NSF Budget
Reviews
Nuclear Energy: Principles, Practices and Prospects, by David Bodansky
: reviewed by Edward Gerjuoy
The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy, Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the NAS
: reviewed by David Hafemeister
Comments
Forum Launches Campaign to Endow the Szilard Lectureship
Ethical Issues in Physics Workshop II Proceedings
: Synopsis prepared by Marshall Thomsen and Bonnie Wylo
sher@physics.wm.edu