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November 1996

Volume 49, Issue 11

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Special Issue: New Light on Early Soviet Bomb Secrets

David Holloway
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Trinity at Dubna

Thomas Reed and Arnold Kramish
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The Russian nuclear trinity—nuclear designers, spooks and peasants—held its first reunion last May, in the town of Dubna, near Moscow. A lot of skeletons came out to dance in the warm spring sun

Detecting the Soviet Bomb: Joe‐1 in a Rain Barrel

Herbert Friedman, Luther B. Lockhart, and Irving H. Blifford
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The Soviet Union made no announcement after its first atomic bomb test in 1949—but the US did. This is the hitherto untold story of how the secret was extracted from rainwater.

Thermonuclear Milestones

German A. Goncharov
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With the opening and discussion of decades‐old archives in Russia, we can reexamine many questions about the history of Soviet thermonuclear weapons development.

Thermonuclear Milestones: (1) The American Effort

German A. Goncharov
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It took a decade for scientists in America to develop the first ideas for a ‘Super’ bomb into a device that ignited ‘the first small thermonuclear flame ever to burn on Earth.’

Thermonuclear Milestones: (2) Beginnings of the Soviet H‐Bomb Program

German A. Goncharov
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Early Soviet theoretical work on thermonuclear ignition was aided by espionage, but many important ideas were conceived and developed independently.

Thermonuclear Milestones: (3) The Race Accelerates

German A. Goncharov
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The Soviet thermonuclear program moved into high gear in 1950. What conclusions can be drawn from the program's successes in 1953 and 1955?
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Physics Update

Phillip F. Schewe
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Memoirs of Schrödinger's Cat

Daniel Kleppner
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Republican Presidential Candidate Presents Views on Science Issues

Robert J. Dole
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Future of Quantum Computing Proves to Be Debatable

Christopher Monroe, David Wineland, Serge Haroche, and Jean‐Michel Raimond
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Physics Ties to Cuba Should Be Personal, Not Institutional

Marcelo Alonso
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Brain Researchers Differ on MEG's Role in Getting Ahead

Paul L. Nunez and Samuel J. Williamson
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Physicist Writing His Memoirs Seeks Contact with Former Students

John Archibald Wheeler
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Corrections

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Confidence is Growing in Tropospheric OH Measurements

Barbara Goss Levi
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After spending many frustrating years trying to develop instruments sensitive enough to sniff out the elusive hydroxyl radical in the troposphere, researchers are finally able to send different types of instruments on field studies and to get similar readings from them.

Precision Tests Find No Violation of Bose Statistics

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Very stable tunable lasers now make it possible to test Bose statistics to a part in a million. The oxygen nucleus has passed the test.

Researchers Glance at Magnetic Surfaces with Synchrotron X Rays

Ray Ladbury
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Researchers using resonant x‐ray scattering to study surface magnetism may be on the verge of technological advances and of a deeper understanding of magnetism.
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Information Revolutions

Mark Burgess
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MRS Convenes in Boston in December

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The Key to Newton's Dynamics: The Kepler Problem and the Principia; Newton's Principia for the Common Reader; Force and Geometry in Newton's Principia; Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun

J. Bruce Brackenridge, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, François De Gandt, David L. Goodstein, Judith R. Goodstein, and Alan E. Shapiro, Reviewer
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Turbulence: The Legacy of A. N. Kolmogorov

Uriel Frisch and Russell J. Donnelly, Reviewer
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Theory of Electron–Atom Collisions, Part I: Potential Scattering

Philip G. Burke, Charles J. Joachain, and Aaron Temkin, Reviewer
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Galaxies and Cosmology

Françoise Combes, Alain Mazure, Patrick Boissé, Alain Blanchard, and Linda Sparke, Reviewer
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Analysis of Observed Chaotic Data

Henry D. I. Abarbanel and Jerry P. Gollub, Reviewer
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Cataclysmic Variable Stars

Brian Warner and Scott Kenyon, Reviewer
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Incompressible Flow

Ronald L. Panton and Yiannis Andreopoulos, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Microscopy

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APS Bestows Accolades at Fall Meetings

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AGU Honors Three in Baltimore

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In Brief

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Shih‐Tung Tsai

Liu Chen, Chuan Sheng Liu, and James W. Van Dam
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Michel M. Ter‐Pogossian

Michael J. Welch and Vicki L. Kunkler
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Viktor Isaakovich Ogievetsky

Jonathan Bagger, Alexander Galperin, Eugeny Ivanov, and Emery Sokatchev
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Carl Dover

Peter D. Bond, Sidney H. Kahana, and D. John Millener
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Melvin H. Mueller

Sidney C. Abrahams, Ron Jenkins, and Ray A. Young
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Peter Weinzierl

Manfred Drosg
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Peter Csavinszky

Kenneth R. Brownstein and Hannington O. Oyoko
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The Science Watching Ten

Irwin Goodwin
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Iridium Satellite System Poses Threat to Radio Astronomy

Toni Feder
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India Gets New Radio Telescope

Toni Feder
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IUPAP General Assembly Held in Sweden

Toni Feder
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AIP Surveys Find Enrollment Losses, Salary Gains

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Rothenberg is AAPM President‐Elect for 1997

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In Brief

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