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August 1983

Volume 36, Issue 8

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Debate on a comprehensive nuclear weapons test ban: Pro

Hugh E. DeWitt
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A critic on the inside says that a treaty is vital to world security, that it is technically feasible, and that the nuclear weapons laboratories should end their opposition to the idea

Debate on a comprehensive nuclear weapons test ban: Con

Robert B. Barker
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In the interest of maintaining a reliable nuclear deterrent capable of surviving Soviet attack, the United States should reexamine its commitment to achieving a comprehensive test ban

Physics research organization, Italian style

Carlo Rizzuto
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Faced with the handicap that research funding in Italy is an order of magnitude lower than in other large countries, the Italian physics community has evolved a system for obtaining as much physics as possible per lira.

Large‐N quantum mechanics and classical limits

Laurence G. Yaffe
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Increasing the number of degrees of freedom surprisingly simplifies the analysis in many quantum theories, often making it possible to calculate physical observables.
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Needed: help for oppressed scientists

Julian Heicklen
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Ethnic oppression in USSR

Yuri I. Luryi
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Early computer history

Yale Jay Lubkin
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Directed‐energy weapons

Bryan G. Wallace
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More on Bronx Science

Samuel Marateck, Marvin Steingart, and Gerald Feinberg
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Secular correction

John S. McIntosh
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Nuclear arms education

Fred Wilson and Nancy K. Jungerman
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Unexplained glass flow

G. Elliot and James C. Phillips
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Radioactive waste disposal

Paul F. Schmidt and Robert O. Pohl
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Information security

I. Glaser
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Money‐saving tip

C. J. Pethick
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Correction

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Directed energy weapons—where are they headed?

Barbara G. Levi
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Less‐elusive neutrinos to look for oil and gas deposits

Gloria B. Lubkin
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JET starts up at Culham Laboratory

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Geometrical Methods of Mathematical Physics

B. Schutz and Ann K. Stehney, Reviewer
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Extragalactic Astronomy

J. Sérsic and Margaret J. Geller, Reviewer
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Mathematical Theory of Entropy

N. F. G. Martin, J. W. England, and Ralph Baierlein, Reviewer
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Atoms in Astrophysics

P. G. Burke, W. B. Eissner, D. G. Hummer, I. C. Percival, and Donald E. Osterbrock, Reviewer
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Ferdinand Braun: A Life of the Nobel Prizewinner and Inventor of the Cathode‐Ray Oscilloscope

F. Kurylo, C. Susskind, and Susan Douglas, Reviewer
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The Social Context of Innovation: Bureaucrats, Families, and Heroes in the Early Industrial Revolution, as Foreseen in Bacon's New Atlantis

Anthony F. C. Wallace and Jane L. Jervis, Reviewer
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Crystallography in North America

D. McLachlan, Jr, Editor and J. Glusker, Editor
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New Books

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New Products

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National Science Board honors Seitz for many contributions

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Franklin Institute awards medals

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Two win MacArthur Fellowships

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Elmer Hutchisson

Frederick Seitz
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Horace Dwight Taft

Robert K. Adair, Jack Sandweiss, and Irwin A. Pless
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Richard Schlegel

Mary Hesse and Arthur Peacocke
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Charles F. Lucks

Charles M. Schwartz
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Computer conferencing: new tool for scientific communication

Irving A. Lerch
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Congress dips into pork barrel for DOE energy budget

Irwin Goodwin
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NSF adds 5 more years to theory center

Irwin Goodwin
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Sakharov speaks from exile on nuclear‐arms issues

Jean Coonan
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Six of the new MacArthur Chairs go to physicists

Jean Coonan
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New APS Congressional Fellows begin working in September

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Boost given to physics for development

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Needed: more public understanding of science

Harold L. Davis
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