Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Front Cover
Nov 1981
64 pages
Vol. 37, No. 9
ISSN 0096-3402
Published by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
 

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Contents

On the reduction of nuclear weapons
1
Nuclear weapons, Disarmament
First strike: myth or reality
6
Guided missiles (Defenses)
Arms control and foreign policy under Reagan
12
United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, United States (Foreign relations, Soviet Union)
Survival of the species: a classroom project
20
Nuclear warfare (Prevention), Education (Pennsylvania), Environmental education, Human ecology
Nuclear ignorance
24
Nuclear weapons (Study and teaching), Children and war
To Moscow for the weekend
38
Exchanges, Literary and scientific, Scientists (Civil rights), Scientists, Russian
pseud. Destruction of nature in the Soviet Union; foreword by M. J. Goldman (Book Review)
42
Overshoot: the ecological basis of revolutionary change; foreword by S. Udall (Book Review)
43
Technological risk: its perception and handling in the European community (Book Review)
44
Fears and perceptions
49
Nuclear energy (Social aspects), Nuclear power plants (Safety measures), Radiation (Physiological effects)

Aid for young scientists
26
International Foundation for Science
Good start, but miles to go
27
International Foundation for Science
Sakharov and the nuclear test ban
33
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov; 1921-1989, Nuclear weapons (Testing, Suspension)
Secrecy and the comprehensive test ban
53
Nuclear weapons (Testing, Suspension), Classified information
Dispelling myths on carbon dioxide
55
Carbon dioxide, Climatic changes
Reactions from Europe
60
Dick TOORNSTRA, Alva Reimer Myrdal (Swedish sociologist.); 1902-1986, Berge FURRE

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