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June 1995

Volume 48, Issue 6

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Select this Article		Fissile Material Security in the Post‐Cold‐War World Frank von Hippel


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	+ -	Show Topic The breakup of the Soviet Union has led to welcome progress in nuclear disarmament but also to a worrisome vulnerability of the vast nuclear stockpiles accumulated there. The US has been working with Russia to tighten controls on fissile material that could be used in nuclear weapons.

Select this Article		Agreement Between Theory and Experiment Amikam Aharoni


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Select this Article		Bethe Fest: A Tribute to a Titan of Modern Physics Irwin Goodwin


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PHYSICS UPDATE

Select this Article		Physics Update Phillip F. Schewe


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LETTERS

Select this Article		Copyrights, Human Rights and the APS–China Memorandum Manyee Betty Tsang, Fang Lizhi, and Burton Richter


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Select this Article		Altering the Academy in Industry's Interests Name Withheld, N. C. Luhmann, Jr, and D. L. Correll, Jr


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Select this Article		The Sky Is Falling! (Well, Part of It) Henry Rishbeth


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Select this Article		Was PT's Environment Issue Misaddressed? Lewis E. Hollander, Jr and Robert W. Socolow


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Select this Article		Triggering Mosquitoes and Initial Butterflies Jeffrey J. Hamilton


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Select this Article		Corrections


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Inhaling Hyperpolarized Noble Gas Helps Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Lungs Bertram Schwarzschild


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	+ -	Show Topic Lungs are very hard to image. Magnetic resonance imaging of inhaled noble gases optically pumped to high levels of nuclear polarization may offer the solution clinicians are looking for.

Select this Article		Sodium Atoms Kicked by Standing Waves Provide a New Probe of Quantum Chaos Graham P. Collins


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Select this Article		Astronomical Image Processing May Improve Breast Cancer Diagnostics Gloria B. Lubkin


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	+ -	Show Topic Medical and astronomical researchers have collaborated to apply sophisticated image processing techniques to detect microcalcifications in mammograms.

Select this Article		X Rays Illuminate Dynamics on Near‐Atomic Length Scales Ray Ladbury


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	+ -	Show Topic Eighty years after x rays were first used to determine the structures of well‐ordered crystals, coherent x‐ray beams are beginning to probe the atomic‐scale dynamics of random distributions of matter.

OPINION

Select this Article		Big Government and Little Analysts Frank von Hippel


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BOOKS

Select this Article		The Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies, Volumes 1 and 2 Allan Sandage, John Bedke, and Sidney Van Den Bergh, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Quantum Optics Daniel F. Walls, Gerard J. Milburn, and Wolfgang P. Schleich, Reviewer


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Select this Article		The Observational Foundations of Physics Alan Cook and Rudolf Peierls, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Lectures in Particle Physics Dan Green and Alexander Firestone, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Theory and Design of Charged Particle Beams Martin Reiser and Edward P. Lee, Reviewer


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Select this Article		The Music of the Heavens: Kepler's Harmonic Astronomy Bruce Stephenson and James R. Voelkel, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Laser Spectroscopy: Techniques and Applications E. R. Menzel and Richard N. Zare, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Group Theory and Physics Shlomo Sternberg and Meinhard E. Mayer, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Holographic Interferometry Principles and Methods P. K. Rastogi and Karl A. Stetson, Reviewer


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Select this Article		New Books

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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article		New Products


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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		AAS Names Recipients of Prizes for 1995


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Select this Article		DOE Announces Winners of Lawrence Awards


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Select this Article		National Academy Names New Members


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Select this Article		In Brief


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Walter S. McAfee Carl A. Accardo


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Select this Article FREE		Peter Vander Arend William B. Fowler, Peter J. Limon, and F. R. Huson


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Select this Article FREE		Harvey Wegner David E. Alburger, Peter D. Bond, and Chellis Chasman


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WASHINGTON REPORTS

Select this Article		Gibbons Veers from Nonpartisan Past to Attack Republican Cuts in Science Irwin Goodwin


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Select this Article		Pseudo‐History Redux: FBI Clears Atomic Bomb Physicists of Spying Irwin Goodwin


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PHYSICS COMMUNITY

Select this Article		A New Program Offers Expertise from Business and the Arts to Science Majors Denis F. Cioffi


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Select this Article		Chinese Renege on Invitations to Scientific Societies Denis F. Cioffi


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Select this Article		IBM Research Secures Toehold in China with New Laboratory Denis F. Cioffi


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Select this Article		Trieste Physics Center Gets New Director


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Select this Article		AIP Writing Awards Go to Taubes, Ride and O'Shaughnessy


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