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March 1998

Volume 51, Issue 3

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The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

Jeremiah D. Sullivan
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An agreement to prohibit all nuclear explosions of any yield, at any location, for any purpose and for all time has been signed by the President and is now in the hands of the US Senate.

Science and Politics in Early Nuclear Test Ban Negotiations

Kai‐Henrik Barth
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In a technical conference related to nuclear test ban negotiations in the late 1950s, Soviet and US scientists disagreed along national lines about the capabilities of scientific instruments, the validity of theories and the handling and interpretation of data.

Quantum Theory without Observers—Part One

Sheldon Goldstein
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Despite the claims of most of the founding fathers, the appeal at a fundamental level to observers and measurement, so prominent in orthodox quantum theory, is not needed to account for quantum phenomena.

Gamma‐Ray Colliders and Muon Colliders

Andrew M. Sessler
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High‐energy physicists have learned much from colliders with beams of protons, antiprotons, electrons and positrons. Now it seems both feasible and useful to build gamma‐gamma and muon‐muon colliders.
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Physics Update

Phillip F. Schewe, Benjamin P. Stein, and Stephen G. Benka
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Scientists, Not Spies, Called Key to Soviet Nuclear Arms Program

David Holloway
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Bright Future Seen as Possible for Digitized X‐Ray Image Amplifiers

George D. Curtis, John Rowlands, and Safa Kasap
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Top‐Ranked Physics Phd Programs in 1982, 1995 Were Mostly Same Ones

Jeffrey H. Bair
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Eugene Fubini Remembered As Wise Counsel Man

Joel A. Snow
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Author's Expressions Change in Reaction to Superfluidity Glitches

Robert J. Soulen and William E. Fogle
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E‐Mail Users Told of Risks of Getting a Bad Code in the Node

Martin Libicki and Mark Buell
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Corrections

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Research Suggests a Recipe for a Lighter Core for Eartha—Just Add Water

Ray Ladbury
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The idea that the most common element in the cosmos—hydrogen—could also be one of the most common on Earth has a certain esthetic appeal; it Takuo Okuchi is correct, it may also be plausible.

SOHO Observations Implicate ‘Magnetic Carpet' as Source of Coronal Heating in Quiet Sun

Charles Day
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The mystery: How is energy transferred from the Sun's 5800 K photosphere to heat the star's 3 million K corona? One likely mechanism, at least for the quiet Sun, involves shortlived loops of magnetic field that sprout on the solar surface—and resemble some kind of energetic celestial shag carpet.

Goodness Gracious, Small Balls of Fire!

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Stellar Motion Very Near the Milky Way's Central Black Hole

Bertram Schwarzschild
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After the Breakthrough: The Emergence of High‐Temperature Superconductivity as a Research Field

Helga Nowotny, Ulrike Felt, and Simon Foner, Reviewer
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Perils of a Restless Planet: Scientific Perspectives on Natural Disasters

Ernest Zebrowski and Paul P. Craig, Reviewer
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The Life of the Cosmos

Lee Smolin and Robert H. March, Reviewer
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Biochemical Oscillations and Cellular Rhythms: The Molecular Bases of Periodic and Chaotic Behaviour

Albert Goldbeter and Joel Keizer, Reviewer
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The NASA Atlas of the Solar System

Ronald Greeley, Raymond Batson, and Raymond Jeanloz, Reviewer
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Chiral Nuclear Dynamics

Maciej A. Nowak, Mannque Rho, Ismail Zahed, and Ihomas D. Cohen, Reviewer
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Beam‐Wave Interaction in Periodic and Quasi‐Periodic Structures

Levi Schachter and Perry B. Wilson, Reviewer
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Supersymmetry in Disorder and Chaos

Konstantin Efetov and Ben Simons, Reviewer
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Optical Properties of Semiconductor Quantum Dots

Ulrike Woggon and Paul Alivisatos, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Test & Measurement

Lawrence G. Rubin
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1998 Wolf Prizes Given in Physics and Chemistry

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National Academy Prizes to Be Given in April

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Vladimir Naumovich Gribov

Lev B. Okun
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Russell La Verne Heath

Richard G. Helmer
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Joseph Edward Lannutti

Sharon Hagopian, Vasken Hagopian, and Joseph F. Owens
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Hermann Rudolf Robl

Horst Meyer and Robert J. Lontz
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John Edward Wertz

Jim Bolton and John Weil
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Ross Edward Williams

Fredrick W. Cotton
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Washington Dispatches

Irwin Goodwin
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Washington Ins & Outs: Dellums and Schiff Leave Congress; Changes at NASA

Irwin Goodwin
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Taiwan Charts Science and Technology Policy into the Next Millennium

Jean Kumagai
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California Pulls Together a Science Standards Writing Team

Toni Feder
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In Brief

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Web Watch

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