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 
April 2006 
Vol. 35, No. 2

IN THIS ISSUE

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Editor's Comments

Articles

• Advanced Nuclear Reactors- their Use in Future Energy Supply, John F. Ahearne
• Bombs, Reprocessing, and Reactor Grade Plutonium, Gerald E. Marsh and George S. Stanford
• Some Religious Implications of Modern Cosmology, Priscilla Laws

Letters

• Re: The Hydrogen Economy, Vladislav Bevc
• Education in Evaluating Theory: E.g., Evolution and Gravitation, Thomas Hanlon
• Should Physicists be Defending Evolution? John Michael Williams
• The Question of Evolution Versus Religion Should be a Non-issue, Louis Clavelli.
• P&S Editor has a Closed Mind, Gordon Freeman

Reviews

• Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future, by National Academy of Sciences, reviewed by Joe Levinger
• The Republican War on Science, by Chris Mooney, reviewed by Lawrence S. Lerner

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Co-Editors: Al Saperstein, Physics Dept., Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202 ams@physics.wayne.edu.; Jeff Marque, Senior Staff Physicist at Beckman Coulter Corporation, 1050 Page Mill Rd., MSY-14, Palo Alto, CA 94304, jjmarque@gte.net. Reviews Editor: Art Hobson, ahobson@uark.edu. Electronic Media Editor: Andrew Post-Zwicker, azwicker@pppl.gov. Print Layout at APS: Leanne Poteet, poteet@aps.org, jones@aps.org. Web Manager for APS: Sara Conners, conners@aps.org. Physics and Society can be found on the Web at http://www.aps.org/units/fps.