APS Forum on Physics and Society - April 2000

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Volume 29, Number 2 Apr 2000

• Letters
  
  1. P&S Type OK: Dave Rahm
  2. Global Warming: Art Hobson
  3. Kansas School Board--A Giant Leap Backwards: Alvin J. Drehman
  4. The news editor responds: Marc Sher

• Articles
  
  1. National Missile Defense: The Technological Fix: Lawrence Badash
  2. The Nuclear Safety Smokescreen: Warhead Safety and Reliability and the Science Based Stockpile Stewardship Program: Hisham Zerriffi and Arjun Makhijani
  3. What Happened to Science Education: Kansas and Beyond: Adrian L. Melott
  4. Magnetic Attraction: Robert L. Park

• News
  
  1. Obituary: Robert R. Wilson
  2. Record Increases Proposed for Research in President's Budget
  3. Mir Keeps Going and Going and Going...
  4. New Patents--Pre-shrunk Hydrogen and Advanced sub-carrier Modulation
  5. Report on the National Ignition Facility

• Reviews
  1. A Moment on the Earth by Gregg Easterbrook; A Moment of Truth, Correcting the Scientific Errors in Gregg Easterbrook's A Moment on the Earth by Leonie Haimson: reviewed by David Hafemeister
  2. Why People Believe Wierd Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition and other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer: reviewed by Mark E. Borrello
  3. Climate Change Articles in Science: reviewed by John Michael Williams