APS Forum on Physics and Society - October 2000

Volume 29, Number 4 Oct 2000

• Editor's Preface
  
• Articles
  
  1. Copenhagen in New York: Harry Lustig and Brian B. Schwartz
  2. Reseach and the Government Performance and Results Act: Beverly K. Hartline
  3. Scientific Freedom and National Security: Irving Lerch

• Commentary
  
  1. How Changes Happens: Thoughts on the Report of the Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology Development: Priscilla Auchinclos

• Letters
  
  1. Global Warming Hysteria: Alexander A. Berezin
  2. Association des Ecologists Pur le Nucleaire: Berol Robinson
  3. Demarcation Between Science and Religion: Ronald I. Miller
  4. Demarcation Between Science and Non-Science?: William E. Butler
  5. There is No Demarcation!: Derek Walton

• Fiction
  
  1. Sunpower: the Benefits of Foresight, A 2025 Sustainable Energy Scenario: Aviva Brecher
  2. Dark World: Ruth Howes
• News
  
  1. Science Budgets
  2. National Missile Defense
  3. Committee on the Advancement of Women in Science and Technology
  4. Kansas School Board Elections
  5. Gordon Sworn in as NNSA Director
  6. Climate Change and Its Effects
  7. John Simpson, 1916-2000
  8. Nanotech Continues to Move

• Reviews
  
  1. Hitler's Uranium Club: the Secret Recordings at Farm Hall: Jeremy Bernstein
     Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project: Paul Lawrence Rose
     reviewed by Leo Sartori
  2. Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project: Ruth H. Howes and Caroline L. Herzenberg, reviewed by Joan Mason

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