APS Forum on Physics and Society - April 1999
Volume 28, Number 2 Apr 1999
Letters
Principle of Collective Dose
: Michael C. Baker
Defending the Linear No-Threshold Hypothesis
: Richard L. Garwin
Both Wolfe and Garwin are Right, but Incomplete
: Richard Wilson
Wolfe on Garwin and the LNT
: Bertram Wolfe
Is Science Bad for the Poor?
: Lawrence Weinstein
Should Physicists Dismiss Speculation?
: Art Hobson
Articles
Equipment Efficiency Standards: Mitigating Global Climate Change at a Profit
: Howard S. Geller and David B. Goldstein
New Automotive Technologies
: Marc Ross
Nuclear Weapons After the Cold War
: W.K.H. Panofsky
News
Threat to Federally Funded Research
The President's Budget Proposals
Fermilab's Congressman Elected Speaker
The Joseph A. Burton Forum Award, The Nicholson Medal and the Szilard Award
Henry Barshall's Survey Upheld
Dual-Career-Couple Survey
Change in Missile Defense Policy
Wanted--A New Articles Editor
Reviews
Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development
, by Herman E. Daly; reviewed by Art Hobson
The Truth of Science
, by Roger G. Newton; reviewed by Allan Walstad
Science in Culture, Special Issue of Daedalus
; reviewed by John F. Ahearne
Possibly Vast Greenhouse Gas Sponge Ignites Controversy
by Jocelyn Kaiser; reviewed by John Michel Williams
Atomic Audit: the Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons since 1940
, Stephen Schwartz, editor and
Killing Detente: the Right Attacks the CIA
by Anne Cahn; reviewed by David Hafemeister
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