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Fissile Material Security in the Post-Cold-War World (June 1995) Nuclear Contamination from Weapons Complexes... (April 1996)-- David Holloway
The Russian nuclear trinity---nuclear designers, spooks and peasants---held its first family reunion last May, in the town of Dubna, near Moscow. A lot of skeletons came out to dance in the warm spring sun -- Thomas Reed and Arnold Kramish
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Fissile Material Security in the Post-Cold-War World (June 1995)
Nuclear Contamination from Weapons Complexes... (April 1996)
The Soviet Union made no announcement after its first atomic bomb test in 1949---but the US did. This is the hitherto untold story of how the secret was extracted from rainwater -- Herbert Friedman, Luther B. Lockhart and Irving H. Blifford
With the opening and discussion of decades-old archives
in Russia, we can reexamine many questions about the history of Soviet thermonuclear weapons development
On-line, largely unedited version of Goncharov's articles (90k) 
It took a decade for scientists in America to develop the first ideas for a "Super" bomb into a device that ignited "the first small thermonuclear flame ever to burn on Earth" -- German A. Goncharov
Early Soviet theoretical work on thermonuclear ignition was aided by espionage, but many important ideas were conceived and developed independently -- German A. Goncharov
The Soviet thermonuclear program moved into high gear in 1950. What conclusions can be drawn from the program's successes in 1953 and 1955? -- German A. Goncharov
Memoirs of Schrödinger's cat -- as told to Daniel Kleppner
Confidence is growing in tropospheric OH measurements. After spending many frustrating years trying to develop instruments sensitive enough to sniff out the elusive hydroxyl radical in the troposphere, researchers are finally able to send different types of instruments on field studies and to get similar readings from them.
Precision tests find no violation of Bose statistics. Very stable tunable lasers now make it possible to test Bose statistics to a part in a million. The oxygen nucleus has passed the test.
Researchers glance at magnetic surfaces with synchrotron x rays. Researchers using resonant x-ray scattering to study surface magnetism may be on the verge of technological advances and of a deeper understanding of magnetism.
MRS Convenes in Boston in December
Meeting program book on-line
Sciences fare better than expected in 1997 budget as Congress rushes for the door and the election
Watchdog group grades House on science issues, but is assailed for "politicizing" science
Washington ins and outs: Departures and changes at NSF and OSTP and new science board members are nominated
Iridium satellite system poses threat to radio astronomy. Because of growing demands on the frequency spectrum by commercial telecommunications activities, radio astronomers are becoming increasingly vigilant and working together to prevent losing their radio window.
India gets new radio telescope
IUPAP general assembly held in Sweden
AIP surveys find enrollment losses, salary gains
Rothenberg is AAPM president-elect for 1997
Information revolutions -- Mark Burgess
The Key to Newton's Dynamics: The Kepler Problem and the Principia, J. B. Brackenridge, translated from the Latin by M. A. Rossi;
Newton's Principia for the Common Reader, S. Chandrasekhar;
Force and Geometry in Newton's Principia, F. De Gandt, translated from the French by C. Wilson;
and Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun, D. L. Goodstein and J. R. Goodstein
(reviewed by A. E. Shapiro)
Turbulence: The Legacy of A. N. Kolmogorov, U. Frisch (reviewed by R. J. Donnelly)
Theory of Electron-Atom Collisions, Part I: Potential Scattering, P. G. Burke and C. J. Joachain (reviewed by A. Temkin)
Galaxies and Cosmology, F. Combes, A. Mazure, P. Boissé and A. Blanchard (reviewed by L. Sparke)
Analysis of Observed Chaotic Data, H. D. I. Abarbanel (reviewed by J. P. Gollub)
Cataclysmic Variable Stars, B. Warner (reviewed by S. Kenyon)
Incompressible Flow, R. L. Panton (reviewed by Y. Andreopoulos)
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