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August 1995

Volume 48, Issue 8

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A Lecture on Bomb Physics: February 1942

Werner Heisenberg, David Cassidy, and William Sweet


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A talk delivered to top German research officials demonstrates that Heisenberg understood, several years before the end of World War II, the basics of how to obtain fissile materials for an atomic bomb.

Bomb Apologetics: Farm Hall, August 1945

Jeremy Bernstein and David Cassidy
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On hearing the news from Hiroshima, the incredulous internees came up with a self‐serving story to explain their failures in nuclear research: To keep Hitler from winning, they had deliberately not developed the atomic bomb.

Groves and the Scientists: Compartmentalization and the Building of the Bomb

Stanley Goldberg
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The general understood that although the contributions of the scientists were crucial, their work was only one of a host of critical components that made up the totality of the Manhattan Project.
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Physics Update

Benjamin P. Stein and Phillp F. Schewe
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Are You Cut Out for Work as a Master's Degree Physicist?

Ken Luey
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Research University Roundtable Reactions

Martin E. Ross and Edward M. Dickson
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Does Top Mass Rule out Higgs at LHC?

Jay Oreab and John Huth
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Impediments to a New Science Curriculum

Alfred S. Levinson, Arnold D. Pickar, and Bruce L. Schulte
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Human Nature Keeps Nukes Necessary

Joseph J. Devaney
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The Hiroshima Neutron Dosimetry Enigma

Raymond Gold
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Is Nitrogen Fertilizer Use Nearing a Balance?

Paul E. Waggoner, Ann P. Kinzig, and Robert H. Socolow
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Cloud Microphysics from the Ground Up

Wynn L. Eberhard and Robert A. Kropfli
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Gaseous Bose–Einstein Condensate Finally Observed

Graham P. Collins
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Researchers using a clever new magnetic trap have cooled a cloud of rubidium‐87 atoms to a record‐low 20 nanokelvins and achieved the Holy Grail of low‐temperature atomic physics: Bose–Einstein condensation in a gas.

Los Alamos Accelerator Group Reports Its Evidence for Neutrino Oscillation

Bertram Schwarzschild
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A handful of muon neutrinos at the LAMPF accelerator appear to have undergone a metamorphosis. If it's true, it tells us that some neutrinos have mass.

Rochester and Naval Research Lab Start Running New Laser Fusion Facilities for Direct‐Drive Experiments

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Direct‐drive laser fusion is a decade behind indirect drive, but new laser facilities at Rochester and NRL may reduce the lead. Meanwhile megajoule indirect‐drive facilities are planned for Livermore and Bordeaux.
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Marie Curie: A Life

Susan Quinn and Elizabeth Garber, Reviewer
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Physics: Concepts and Connections

Art Hobson and Paul P. Craig, Reviewer
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Elements of Controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and Radiation Safety in Nuclear Weapons Testing, 1947–1974

Barton C. Hacker and Mark W. Goodman, Reviewer
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The Nuclear Shell Model

Kris L. G. Heyde and George F. Bertsch
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Quantum Chaos: A New Paradigm of Nonlinear Dynamics

Katsuhiro Nakamura and Martin Gutzwiller, Reviewer
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Random, Non‐Random and Periodic Faulting in Crystals

M. T. Sebastian, P. Krishna, and David R. Nelson, Reviewer
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Introduction to the Theory of the Integer Quantum Hall Effect

M. Janssen, O. Viehweger, U. Fastenrath, J. Hajdu, and Steven M. Girvin, Reviewer
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Solar Magnetic Fields: Polarized Radiation Diagnostics

Jan Olof Stenflo and Douglas Rabin, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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AGU Presents Awards in Baltimore

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Alexander Rich
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Peter Van De Kamp

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Vlttorio Celli, Bascom S. Deaver, Jr., Paul K. Hansma, and Lawrence G. Rubin
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Washington Ins & Outs: Clinton Chooses MIT’s Moniz to be OSTP Associate Director

Irwin Goodwin
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Waxahachie Site Finds No Takers as SSC Physicists Move On

Denis F. Cioffi
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Tarter Takes Charge of Livermore in Uncertain Times

Denis F. Cioffi
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Ionizing Radiation Group Calls for Improved Standards

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IBM Opens Another Research Laboratory Headed by a Physicist

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Two Physicists Become College Presidents

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Erlich is 1995–96 President‐Elect of ASA

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