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October 2002 Newsletter

Volume 31, Number 4

Al Saperstein, Editor

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In This Issue

Articles

  • Germany: Disarmament Research in Physics, JC
  • The Causes of the Chernobyl Event, Jacques Frot
  • Chernobyl: The Effects on Public Health? Andre Aurengo

Commentary

  • Nuclear Earth-Penetrators: a Dangerous Fantasy, A. DeVolpi
  • Heisenberg, Bohr and the Atom Bomb, Wolfgang Liebert
  • Copenhagen in Europe: Why not the Same Debate as in the US ? Jean-Jacques Salomon
  • The Role of German Physicists in WWII Science, Harry Lipkin
  • Creating a New Past: Heisenberg and Radioactive Decay, Alvin M. Saperstein and Betsy Pugel

Letters

  • A New Challenge from the Creationists, Adrian L. Melott
  • A Reaction to a Reading of Jeff Schmidt's 'Disciplined Minds, Jeffrey Marque<
  • Women in Physics and Scientific Literacy, Art Hobson

Reviews

  • Science and Security in the 21st Century, by the Commission on Science and Security, reviewed by Lincoln Wolfenstein
  • Silent Spill, the Organization of an Industrial Crisis by Thomas D. Beamish, reviewed by Daphne Burleson
  • Reports of the National Center for Science Education, reviewed by Lawrence S. Lerner

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