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October 2003 Newsletter

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In This Issue

News

  • Congress Shows Interest in Nuclear Power and Personnel Required to Make it Go
  • House Challenges DoD on Need to Speed Up Capabilities for Nuclear Weapons Testing
  • House Complains About DoD Process for Determining Need for Nuclear Weapons
  • Graduate Research Student Rejected on Non-Academic Grounds

Articles

  • The Risks of Nuclear Weapons After the Cold War, W.K.H. Panofsky
  • An Alternative Nuclear Posture, Michael May
  • Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, North Korea, and Iran: Hype, Hope, or Hysteria?Philip E.Coyle, III
  • Ballistic missile Defense Revisited, W.K.H. Panofsky
  • Protecting Nuclear Material and Facilities: A Standards-Based Approach, Charles D. Ferguson

Commentary

  • FPS Discussion Board Opens for Business, Tony Nero
  • Forum Election Results, Marc Sher
  • Energy for Society From Space, Arthur Smith

News

  • Congress Shows Interest in Nuclear Power and Personnel Required to Make it Go
  • House Challenges DoD on Need to Speed Up Capabilities for Nuclear Weapons Testing
  • House Complains About DoD Process for Determining Need for Nuclear Weapons
  • Graduate Research Student Rejected on Non-Academic Grounds

Reviews

  • A Serious but not Ponderous book About Nuclear Energy, by Walter Scheider, reviewed by John  Ahearne
  • Risk and Reason: Safety Law and the Environment, by Cass Sunstein, reviewed by Peter Schroeder

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