APS Forum on Physics and Society - April 2000
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Volume 29, Number 2 Apr 2000
Letters
P&S Type OK
: Dave Rahm
Global Warming
: Art Hobson
Kansas School Board--A Giant Leap Backwards
: Alvin J. Drehman
The news editor responds
: Marc Sher
Articles
National Missile Defense: The Technological Fix
: Lawrence Badash
The Nuclear Safety Smokescreen: Warhead Safety and Reliability and the Science Based Stockpile Stewardship Program
: Hisham Zerriffi and Arjun Makhijani
What Happened to Science Education: Kansas and Beyond
: Adrian L. Melott
Magnetic Attraction
: Robert L. Park
News
Obituary: Robert R. Wilson
Record Increases Proposed for Research in President's Budget
Mir Keeps Going and Going and Going...
New Patents--Pre-shrunk Hydrogen and Advanced sub-carrier Modulation
Report on the National Ignition Facility
Reviews
A Moment on the Earth
by Gregg Easterbrook;
A Moment of Truth, Correcting the Scientific Errors in Gregg Easterbrook's
A Moment on the Earth
by Leonie Haimson: reviewed by David Hafemeister
Why People Believe Wierd Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition and other Confusions of Our Time
by Michael Shermer: reviewed by Mark E. Borrello
Climate Change Articles in
Science
: reviewed by John Michael Williams
sher@physics.wm.edu