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October 2004 Newsletter

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In This Issue

Forum Elections

  • Candidate Bios and Statements

Forum Affairs

  • Report on the April 2004 Meeting of the APS Council, Philip W. Hammer, Forum Councilor

Articles

  • Teaching About Nuclear Weapons, Michael May
  • The Need for Scientific Literacy in a Challenging Era, Sidney Drell

Letters

  • Stewardship by Gregory Benford

Commentary

  • POPA Looks at the Hydrogen Initiative and a Proposed Modern Pit Facility, Barbara Goss Levi
  • Skewness of Federal R & D Funding, Jeffrey Marque
  • Threats to American Preeminence in Innovation, Alvin M. Saperstein

Reviews

  • The Precautionary Principle in the 20th Century–Late Lessons from Early Warnings by Poul Harremoës, David Gee, Malcolm MacGarvin, Andy Stirling, Jane Keys, Brian Wynne, and Sofia Guedes Vaz (Editor)., reviewed by Claude Plante
  • Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age by Bill McKibben, reviewed by Martin Epstein
  • Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the world Nuclear Disarmament Movement, Volume 3, 1971-present by Lawrence S. Wittner, reviewed by Lincoln Wolfenstein

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