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July 1992

Volume 45, Issue 7

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Iraq's Secret Nuclear Weapons Program

Jay C. Davis and David A. Kay
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UN inspectors discovered on electromagnetic isotope separation factory that put Iraq just 18‐30 months away from having enough material for a bomb. They also found European centrifuge technology and plans for an implosion device.

The Eventful Life of Fritz Houtermans

Iosif B. Khriplovich
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Fleeing Hitler, he went to England in 1933. Soon, driven by idealism and English cooking, he moved to the Soviet Union. Eventually the NKVD shipped him back to the Gestapo. Through it all he managed to do ground‐breaking physics.

Micromechanical Models of the Cochlea

Jont B. Allen and Stephen T. Neely
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We know that the inner ear separates the frequency components of complex sounds by mechanical means, but exactly how is this feat accomplished?
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Fretting about Statistics

Daniel Kleppner
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Adaptive Optics: Additional Advances and Applications

David G. Sandler and Geoffrey A. Landis
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Has Defense Research Held Science Back?

Glenn Cooper
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Us Nuclear Stockpile Safety: Review No. 2

Ray E. Kidder
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Physics Departments: Don't Chop the Shop

John H. Reynolds
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Don't Omit Population from Energy Equation

Ben Zuckerman
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Has Psychokinesis Met Science's Measure?

Brian D. Josephson and Philip W. Anderson
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How Tiny Bubbles Can Cause Big Booms

M. M. Chaudhri
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I Get No Thick from Champagne

Gianni Astarita
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Textbook Authors, Rewrite Old Wrongs

Jay M. Pasachoff
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Let PRL Readers Review the Referees

Steven M. Green and Stephen J. Hagen
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Big vs Little Science: A Lesson from Alvarez

Hubert P. Yockey
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Students and Teachers Need to Face Facts

R. Jones
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A New Form of Nuclear Blackmail?

Vladislav Bevc
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Corrections

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Arctic Measurements Indicate the Chilly Prospect of Ozone Depletion

Barbara Goss Levi
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The Lonely Physics Teacher

Peter Lindenfeld
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Crystallographers Scheduled to Meet in Pittsburgh

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An Introduction to the History of Structural Mechanics

Eduardo Benvenuto and James Casey, Reviewer
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The Maxwellians

Bruce J. Hunt and Daniel Siegel, Reviewer
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Quantum Signatures of Chaos and the Transition to Chaos in Conservative Classical Systems: Quantum Manifestations

Fritz Haake, Linda Reichl, and Martin C. Gutzwiller, Reviewer
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Chaotic Transport in Dynamical Systems

Stephen Wiggins and John Guckenheimer, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Lawler and Spruch Honored at APS Divison Meeting

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ASA Applauds Achievements in Acoustics

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Astronomical Society Honors Paczynski, Babcock

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David H. Frisch

Victor Weisskopf, Francis Low, and Louis Osborne
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Arthur Herschman

Rita G. Lerner
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James H. Wakelin

Robert W. Morse
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Frederick Jozef Belinfante

Alexander N. Gerritsen, Sergio Rodriguez, Arnold Tubis, and James C. Swihart
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Victim of House Budget Balancing War, SSC Now Faces an Uncertain Fate in Senate

Irwin Goodwin
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A DOE Panel Thinks the Unthinkable: Budget Squeeze Could Eliminate SLAC

Irwin Goodwin
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PCAST Sets Hearing Dates for Study of Universities

Irwin Goodwin
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AT&T and Corning, Taking Cue from Sun, Support Research in Russian Labs

William Sweet
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Britain Establishes Cabinet‐Level Science Portfolio

William Sweet
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AIP Survey Finds 7% Rise in Physics PhDs in 1990–91

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APS and EPS Adopt Approach to East European and FSU aid

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Lyon is President‐Elect of Acoustical Society of America

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In Brief

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