APS Forum on Physics and Society - January 1999

FPS Home Page

Volume 28, Number 1 Jan 1999

Download PDF version (available by end of January)

• Letters
  
  1. More on Deaths due to Chernobyl: Richard Garwin
  2. Tethered Satellites as "Voodoo Science": Geoffrey A. Landis
  3. Perpetual Voodoo: Louis A.P. Balazs
  4. Warding Off "Flying Saucer" with Magnets: Don Lichtenberg
  5. Vulnerability and the Choice Between Science and Pseudo-Science: R.-M. Marroum

• Articles
  
  1. History of the Forum on Physics and Society: David Hafemeister
  2. Leo Szilard: Physics, Politics, and the Narrow Margin of Hope: William Lanouette
  3. Leo Szilard. Toward a Livable World: Edward Gerjuoy
  4. Some Thoughts on Planning for the Future for American Science: Caroline L. Herzenberg

• News
  
  1. THE NATIONAL SCIENCE POLICY REPORT
  2. The Appropriations Bills
  3. The Atlanta Meeting and the FPS
  4. Number of Physicists in Congress Doubles!!
  5. Commission on the Advancement of Women in Science