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July 2006 Newsletter

Volume 35, Number 3

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In This Issue

News

  • President Bush and Governor Schwarzenegger Crown Art Rosenfeld “Father of Energy Efficiency”, David Hafemeister
  • NRC Report Critical of NASA's Plans for Science, Audrey T. Leath

Letters

  • More on Strawbale Construction, Robert Breche
  • Alternatives to “Global Warming”, Gerald L. O'Barr

Commentary

  • We Taught Them to Fish and They Are, Harold M. Agnew

Articles

  • Intelligent Design in the Physics Classroom?Travis Norsen
  • Drilling for Oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Richard J. Wiener
  • Should the U.S. Reprocess Spent Nuclear Fuel?Robert Vandenbosch and Susanne E. Vandenbosch
  • Nuclear Proliferation Status, 2006, Joseph Cirincione
  • Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials: An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities, Steve Fetter and Ben Rusek
  • Advances in Nuclear Monitoring Technologies, Brent K. Park, John M. Blackadar, Ian H. Campbell, James D. Danneskiold, Robert J. Estep, Gary Hal Gardner, M. William Johnson, Manuel D. Martinez, Edward A. McKigney, William L. Myers, Clair J. Sullivan, Gregory J. Van Tuyle

Reviews

  • Nuclear Shadowboxing, Vol. 1: Cold War Redux. By Alexander DeVolpi, Vladimir E. Minkov, Vadim E. Simonenko and George S. Stanford, Reviewed by Peter B. Lerner
  • Reappraising Oppenheimer, Centennial Studies and Reflections. Edited by Cathryn Carson and David Hollinger, Reviewed by Lincoln Wolfenstein

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