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January 2003 Newsletter

Volume 32, Number 1

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In This Issue

News

  • Obituary: Earl Callen, our first Chair
  • Good News for NSF
  • Bad News for Physics - Research Misconduct
  • Bad New About Science Students - They Are Missing
  • Bad News at Los Alamos

Articles

  • Russian Early-Warning System and Danger of Inadvertent Launch,Pavel Podvig
  • Risk-Based Security at the National Labs: A Report of The Commission on Science and Security, 
  • Nuclear Power and Nuclear Proliferation, H.A. Feiveson
  • Sniffer Plane Secrets and Political Courage, Alan J. Scott 

Commentary

  • The Physics of Religion, John T. A. Ely

Reviews

  • Common Sense on Climate Change: Practical Solutions to Global Warming, Union of Concerned Scientists, reviewed by Manish Gupta
  • Making the Nation Safer; the Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism, National Academy of Science, reviewed by Forest Rouse

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