APS Forum on Physics and Society - April 1999

Volume 28, Number 2 Apr 1999

• Letters
  1. Principle of Collective Dose: Michael C. Baker
  2. Defending the Linear No-Threshold Hypothesis: Richard L. Garwin
  3. Both Wolfe and Garwin are Right, but Incomplete: Richard Wilson
  4. Wolfe on Garwin and the LNT: Bertram Wolfe
  5. Is Science Bad for the Poor?: Lawrence Weinstein
  6. Should Physicists Dismiss Speculation?: Art Hobson

• Articles
  
  1. Equipment Efficiency Standards: Mitigating Global Climate Change at a Profit: Howard S. Geller and David B. Goldstein
  2. New Automotive Technologies: Marc Ross
  3. Nuclear Weapons After the Cold War: W.K.H. Panofsky

• News
  
  1. Threat to Federally Funded Research
  2. The President's Budget Proposals
  3. Fermilab's Congressman Elected Speaker
  4. The Joseph A. Burton Forum Award, The Nicholson Medal and the Szilard Award
  5. Henry Barshall's Survey Upheld
  6. Dual-Career-Couple Survey
  7. Change in Missile Defense Policy
  8. Wanted--A New Articles Editor

• Reviews
  1. Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development, by Herman E. Daly; reviewed by Art Hobson
  2. The Truth of Science, by Roger G. Newton; reviewed by Allan Walstad
  3. Science in Culture, Special Issue of Daedalus; reviewed by John F. Ahearne
  4. Possibly Vast Greenhouse Gas Sponge Ignites Controversy by Jocelyn Kaiser; reviewed by John Michel Williams
  5. Atomic Audit: the Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons since 1940, Stephen Schwartz, editor and Killing Detente: the Right Attacks the CIA by Anne Cahn; reviewed by David Hafemeister