APS Forum on Physics and Society - July 1999

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Volume 28, Number 3 Jul 1999

• Articles
  
  1. Technical Aspects of Ballistic Missile Defense: Richard L. Garwin
  2. Missile Defense in Modern War: Gregory H. Canavan
  3. National Missile Defenses: What's new? What's not? And, Most Important, Does It Make Sense?: Lisbeth Gronlund

• News
  
  1. Excerpts from the Minutes of the FPS Executive Board Meeting
  2. Nominations Sought for Burton Forum and Szilard Awards
  3. Update on the "Data Access" Law
  4. The Ed-Flex Bills and the Physicist-Congressmen
  5. China---National Labs
  6. Imbalance In Research Funding
  7. Clinton's Comments on Science and Technology
  8. Quantum Mechanical Consciousness Field and the War in Kosovo
  9. The Pigasus Awards
  10. Gibbs Didn't Know What Free Energy Was

• Reviews
  
  1. Evaluating Federal Research Programs: Research and the Government Performance and Results Act, National Academy of Science; reviewed by John F. Ahearne
  2. Reason Enough to Hope: America and the World of the 21st Century, Philip Morrison and Kosta Tsipis, reviewed by Alvin M. Saperstein