IN THIS ISSUE - July 2003PDF of the entire issue (21pp - 105k) - Elections
- Candidate Statements. Please Vote!
- Ballot. Please Vote! You may also vote via the Web at: http://www.physics.wm.edu/ballot.html
- Forum Matters — PDF
- FPS Executive Committee Meeting, 4/6/03, Andrew Post-Zwicker, Forum Secretary-Treasurer
- Summary of APS Council Meeting, 4/4/03, Edward Gerjuoy, Forum Councillor
- Articles — PDF
- U.S. Nuclear Posture: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, Steve Fetter1
- Seattle Won a Park in a Battle with a Missile System, Greg Dash
- Commentary — PDF
- Comments on the "Nuclear Weapons and Missile Defenses: Current U.S. Policies and Programs" Session of the APS meeting, April 8th 2003, Fay Dowker
- Letters from Italy: A Physicist's Decision not to Review Papers for Phys. Rev., Daniel Amit
- News — PDF
- Low yield Nuclear Warheads
- UC Must Bid for Los Alamos
- U.S. Participation in International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)
- Cosmic Ray Muons versus Terrorism
- Physical Science - Biological Science Funding Imbalance
- Reviews — PDF
- The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable, Gretchen C. Daily and Katherine Ellison, reviewed by Marty Epstein
- Energy and Society (An Introduction), by Harold H. Schobert, reviewed by William J. Makofske
IN THE APRIL 2003 WEB ISSUE
PDF file of entire issue (43 pp - 453K) difficulty downloading? alternate pdf (960k) - The Troubled State of U.S. Science Education: Problems and Possible Solutions, Daphne Burleson — PDF
- Physics on the Subway (with cartoons), Robert H. Romer — PDF
- Securing the Atom-Using Advanced Simulation to Look Ahead to 21st Century Nuclear Energy, Edward D. Arthur — PDF
- Thoughts on Edward Teller’s Memoirs, Donald H. McNeill — PDF
- Why Did Heisenberg go to Copenhagen? Klaus Gottstein — PDF
- Call for Nominations
- Remarks from the Chair, Andy Sessler
- Nuclear Policing the World, Nina Byers
- Dismay with Previous Commentary, Mary Jean Scott
- Vigorous Exception, Ronald I. Miller
- Censor Letters? Mordecai-Mark Mac Low
- You May Not Read Yourself! Karl-Ontjes Groeneveld
- Risk Assessment/Risk Management, Christopher Gardner and Aviva Brecher
- Pro Nuclear Power, Bertram Wolfe
- Point/No Counterpoint, Bruno Comby
- New Co-Editor
- Publish vs. Perish
- Controversy: Log vs. Linear Plots
- Radiological Sciences and WMD
- Depleted Uranium Contaminates Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Brotherhood of the Bomb by Gregg Herken, reviewed by Andrew M. Sessler
- A Convenient Spy: Wen Ho Lee and the Politics of Nuclear Espionage by Dan Stober and Ian Hoffman, reviewed by Peter Lerner.
- Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th Century World, by J.R. McNeill, reviewed by Tina Kaarsberg.
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