Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Front Cover
Feb 1976
64 pages
Vol. 32, No. 2
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

Body pleasure and the origins of violence
4
Infants (Care and hygiene), Pleasure, Sensory deprivation, Sexual behavior, Violence
Secrecy and security
5
Official secrets
Bronk, Detlev Wulf
6
Detlev Wulf Bronk; 1897-1975
Covert action: swampland of American foreign policy
7
United States Central Intelligence Agency
National anathema
9
Three methods of isotope separation
26
Isotope separation
Active-type solar heating systems for houses: a technology in ferment
30
Solar heating
Nuclear energy debate in the Netherlands
41
Energy policy (Netherlands)
Dynamic equilibrium economy
47
Economic development
Modest proposal for increased North-South interaction among scientists
56
Science (International aspects, Developing countries)

Week we almost went to war
12
John Fitzgerald Kennedy; 1917-1963, Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Dangerous drift in uranium enrichment
22
Uranium metallurgy
Legacy of uranium tailings; studies by R. O. Pohl and the EPA on health effects of coalfired power plants and nuclear power plants
61
Nuclear power plants (Environmental aspects), Electric plants (Environmental aspects), Radiation (Physiological effects), Tailings (Metallurgy)

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