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December 2000

Volume 53, Issue 12

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Special Issue: On Physics and National Security

Sidney D. Drell
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The Evolving Battlefield

John S. Foster and Larry D. Welch
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National defense with maximum precision and minimum unintended damage should be an attractive challenge for scientists seeking to improve the human condition.
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The Continuing Debate on National Missile Defenses

Lisbeth Gronlund, George N. Lewis, and David C. Wright
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Concerns about “emerging missile states” have spurred development of a system to defend the US from small‐scale ballistic missile attacks. But the planned system could be compromised by simple countermeasures, and the security costs of deployment could be high.
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Science‐Based Stockpile Stewardship

Raymond Jeanloz
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With the end of nuclear testing, the US seeks to maintain its nuclear deterrent with a multifaceted program aimed at understanding more about the materials and processes of nuclear weapons.
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The Scientific Community and Intelligence Collection

Mark F. Moynihan
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Academic scientists continue to play a vital role in helping the intelligence community exploit technology for national security.
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Physics Update

Philip F. Schewe and Benjamin P. Stein
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Solar Luminosity Eludes Understanding

Peter Foukal and Eugene N. Parker
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PHYSICS TODAY's Electoral Preference

David C. Johannsen
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Japanese Team Measures Tropical Instability Effects

Shang‐Ping Xie
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The Measure of a Meter

Jeffery Winkler and Daniel Kleppner
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Women Authors, Scientists Critiqued

Frieda A. Stahl and Benjamin C. Zulueta
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Physics Students Are Masters of Industry

Gregory D. Earle, William Burgett, and John H. Hoffman
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Quark‐Gluon Plasma or ‘Classical’ Hadronic Physics?

Ulrich Mosel
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Surface Instability Spikes

Susamu Taketomi, Michael P. Brenner, and Howard A. Stone
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Physics Nobel Prize Honors Roots of Information Age

Richard Fitzgerald
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Jack Kilby, coinventor of the integrated circuit, and Zhores Alferov and Herbert Kroemer, early pioneers of semiconductor heterostructures, made today's electronic and communications technology possible.
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Lights out at LEP

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Salutes the Discovery of Conducting Polymers

Barbara Goss Levi
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Conducting polymers have found applications ranging from antistatic coatings to all‐polymer integrated circuits.
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Simple Mechanisms Help Explain Insect Hovering

Richard Fitzgerald
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Experimental models and two‐dimensional computer simulations of insect hovering provide insight that is missing in steady‐state analysis.
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Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe

Martin Rees and Edward W. Kolb, Reviewer
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Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy

Max Jammer and Jonathan Bain, Reviewer
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The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos

Mario Livio and Sidney C. Wolff, Reviewer
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An Introduction to Econophysics: Correlations and Complexity in Finance

Rosario N. Mantegna, H. Eugene Stanley, and Neil A. Chriss, Reviewer
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The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist and One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos

Neil de Grasse Tyson, Charles Liu, Robert Irion, and David H. DeVorkin, Reviewer
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A Different Approach to Cosmology: From a Static Universe Through the Big Bang Towards Reality

Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Burbidge, Jayant V. Narlikar, and Mario Livio, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Software

Lawrence G. Rubin
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‘Dutch Nobel Prize’ Winners Announced

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Achievements in Physics Recognized by APS

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AAS Divisions Bestow Honors for 2000

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Balzan Prize Goes to Observatory Director

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In Brief

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John Alexander Simpson

Eugene N. Parker
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Roger Elwood Batzel

C. Bruce Tarter
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Jean Heidmann

Seth Shostak
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Oswald Francis “Mike” Schuette

Ronald D. Edge and Charles P. Poole
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Science Funding Soars to Record Heights

Jim Dawson
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Entrepreneur Founds Theory Institute in Canada

Toni Feder


See Also: Erratum

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Japan Arrests Six in Nuclear Accident that Killed Two

Toni Feder
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Physics Outreach in Germany Draws Crowds

Toni Feder
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Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Closing

Toni Feder
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Physicists Take Their Skills to the Hill

Lynley Hargreaves
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Ludeke Will Lead AVS in 2002

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