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September 1992

Volume 45, Issue 9

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The Heard Island Feasibility Test

Arthur Baggeroer and Walter Munk
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An expedition in the southern Indian Ocean demonstrated that coded underwater acoustic signals can be received worldwideand serve as a method for measuring global ocean warming.

Progress toward Ignition and Burn Propagation in Inertial Confinement Fusion

John D. Lindl, Robert L. McCrory, and E. Michael Campbell
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To achieve efficient inertial confinement fusion one must produce a small hot spot within the imploding target from which thermonuclear burn can ignite.

Energy from Inertial Fusion

William J. Hogan, Roger Bangerter, and Gerald L. Kulcinski
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Progress in drivers, reactors and targets has made smaller, more flexible power plants feasible and has reduced the potential costs of developing them.
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About Benjamin Thompson

Daniel Kleppner
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Elf‐Field Health Effects: Biological, or Illogical?

Franklin Hutchinson, Geoffrey A. Landis, Antony C. Fraser‐Smith, Franklin F. Offner, and Robert K. Adair
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To Aid Teachers, Fix the Bureaucracy

Victor F. Weisskopf, Karen Worth, and Leon Lederman
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Can a Tokamak Breed Enough Tritium?

Guenther Eichhorn, J. Geoffrey Cordey, Robert J. Goldston, and Ronald R. Parker
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‘Japan: Not an Energy Efficiency Model’—Not!

Art Hobson, Sebastian Kuhn, Robert Close, Chauncey Starr, and Milton F. Searl
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Where Did Pauli Make His “Wrong” Remark?

Leonard X. Finegold
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What's the Shape of Things to Come in Semiconductor Lasers?

Barbara Goss Levi
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What is Materials Physics, Anyway?

Sokrares T. Pantelides
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Sakharov Remembered: A Tribute by Friends and Colleagues and Andrei Sakharov:Facets of a Life

Sidney D. Drell, Sergei P. Kapitza, J. Trân Thanhvân, and Paul Wiegmann, Reviewer
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Time's Arrow: The Origins of Thermodynamic Behavior

Michael C. Mackey and Ronald F. Fox, Reviewer
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New Perspectives in Turbulence

Lawrence Sirovich and Stanley A. Berger, Reviewer
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Prisoner's Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb

William Poundstone and N. Metropolis, Reviewer
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Chernobyl: Insight from the Inside

V. M. Chernousenko and William Sweet, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Energy Department Names Lawrence Awarad Winners

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Georgy Nikolayevich Flerov

Yuri T. Oganessian
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Robert V. Pyle

Klaus Berkner, Wulf Kunkel, and Lawrence Ruby
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Robert Hugh Cole

John Berberian and Peder Estrup
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Arnold M. Karo

John R. Creighton, John R. Hiskes, Fredrick E. McMurphy, and John R. Hardy
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William Streifer

Nicholas K. Sheridon
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Yoshio Tanaka

W. R. S. Garton and Kouichi Yoshino
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John Dowling

Ruth Howes and Anthony Fainberg
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Redefining the Endless Frontier: NSF Confronts the ‘New Reality’

Irwin Goodwin
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Good News for the SSC as Senate Approves Funds and Magnets Work

Irwin Goodwin and Bertram Schwarzschild
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Exodus of Five OMB Science Staffers Leaves Gaps in Key Science Policies

Irwin Goodwin
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IBM, Siemens and Toshiba to Develop 256‐Megabit Chip

William Sweet
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G7 Summit Yields Little in Way of Aid for States of Former USSR

William Sweet
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Survey Reveals Recession's Impact on Class of 1991

Jean Kumagai
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US Puts in Best Performance Ever in Physics Olympiad

Jean Kumagai
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Newton is Editor of Mathematical Physics

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In Brief

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