Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Volume 63 Issue 6

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November
2007
Volume: 63
ISSN: 0096-3402
Page count: 64
Issue external URL: Link

Opinion

1 November 2007
Opinion

Synthesizing Biosecurity

Stephen M. MaurerLaurie Zoloth
Protecting the public from the risks of synthetic biology depends on the scientific community's will, capacity, and commitment to regulate itself.
1 November 2007
Opinion

Stumping on Security

Michael Stebbins
Presidential candidates need to address a wide range of national security questions this election season.
1 November 2007
Opinion

Activism Revived

Lawrence S. WittnerJessica WilbanksKate HudsonAaron Voldman
During the 1980s, a grass roots movement against nuclear weapons filled city streets worldwide with protesters. Today, the drumbeat for disarmament is growing loud again. Our experts debate whether we are witnessing a reemergence

Interview

1 November 2007
Interview

Interview: Brice Smith

John Rezek
Life is full of risks. Buf one scienfisf confends fhaf life fueled by more nuclear power is filled wifh fhe sorf of risks fhaf are insurmounfable and unnecessary.

Feature

1 November 2007
Feature

Thinking Past Ourselves

Bill McKibben
Climate change challenges us to move beyond a culture that has reduced nature to yet another consumable.
1 November 2007
Feature

Burma's Forgotten Refugees

Emma Larkin
Trapped by a political stalemate, Burma's Rohingya minority live in horrific conditions that are both an indictment of the international community's inability to protect refugees and a recruiting ground for terrorists.
1 November 2007
Feature

An Inconvenient Assessment

Chris Mooney
Seven years ago, scientists published a pioneering study to help Americans understand the implications of climate change. Here's why you've never heard of it.
1 November 2007
Feature

Peace Talk: My Life Negotiating Science and Policy

W. K. H. Panofsky
A pioneer in the field of elementary particle physics and the first director of one of the most productive research facilities ever built, W. K. H. “Fief” Panofsky served as an adviser at the

Review

1 November 2007
Review

Fearing Fear Itself

John Mueller
The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor, by William Langewiesche, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 181 pages, 2007, $22.
1 November 2007
Review

Nanotechnology at War

Mike Treder
Military Nanotechnology: Potential Applications and Preventive Arms Control (Contemporary Security Studies), by Jürgen Altmann, Routledge, 238 pages, 2006, $125.
1 November 2007
Review

A Unified Theory of Einstein

Rocky Kolb
Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson, Simon and Schuster, 704 pages, 2007, $32.

Nuclear notebook

1 November 2007
Nuclear notebook

Nuclear Cruise Missiles

Robert S. NorrisHans M. Kristensen

Turn back the clock

1 November 2007
Turn back the clock

A Turkish Nuclear Turnaround

Mustafa Kibaroglu

Bulletins

1 November 2007
Bulletins

Bulletins

Agricultural practices indirectly affect the atmosphere–and climate.