F O R U M O N P H Y S I C S & S O C I E T Y
of The American Physical Society
October 2002

Volume 31, Number 4 October 2002

PDF file of entire issue (51 pp)

• Editor's Comments PDF

• Articles
  1. Germany: Disarmament Research in Physics,JCPDF
  2. The Causes of the Chernobyl Event, Jacques Frot PDF
  3. Chernobyl: The Effects on Public Health? Andre Aurengo PDF
     
     
• Commentaries PDF
  
  1. Nuclear Earth-Penetrators: a Dangerous Fantasy, A. DeVolpi
  2. Heisenberg, Bohr and the Atom Bomb, Wolfgang Liebert
  3. Copenhagen in Europe: Why not the Same Debate as in the US ? Jean-Jacques Salomon
  4. The Role of German Physicists in WWII Science, Harry Lipkin
  5. Creating a New Past: Heisenberg and Radioactive Decay, Alvin M. Saperstein and Betsy Pugel

• Letters PDF
  1. A New Challenge from the Creationists, Adrian L. Melott
  2. A Reaction to a Reading of Jeff Schmidt's 'Disciplined Minds, Jeffrey Marque
  3. Women in Physics and Scientific Literacy, Art Hobson
     
     
• Reviews PDF
  1. Energy: Science, Policy and the Pursuit of Sustainability, Edited by Robert Bent, Lloyd Orr and Randall Baker, reviewed by Matthew Sharp
  2. Science and Security in the 21st Century, by the Commission on Science and Security, reviewed by Lincoln Wolfenstein
  3. Silent Spill, the Organization of an Industrial Crisis by Thomas D. Beamish, reviewed by Daphne Burleson
  4. Reports of the National Center for Science Education, reviewed by Lawrence S. Lerner
     

Editor: Al Saperstein, asaperstein@fas.org. Articles Editor: Betsy Pugel, b_pugel@hotmail.com. Reviews Editor: Art Hobson, ahobson@uark.edu. Electronic Media Editor: Andrew Post-Zwicker, azwicker@pppl.gov. Web Manager for APS: Joanne Fincham.