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Columnists
9 July 2008
Biosecurity

Making the dual-use problem a "piece of cake"

Malcolm Dando

Some academic conferences are encouraging because progress is being made in a field. Others are daunting because of the amount of work that clearly still needs to be done. The conference I attended in the beginning of June, on "Dual Uses of Biomedicine: Whose responsibility?" left me feeling both encouraged and daunted.

Agree to Disagree
9 July 2008

Let's get real about a combined geoengineering/mitigation approach

Tom M. L. Wigley

Alan Robock continues to misrepresent geoengineering using stratospheric aerosols.

Agree to Disagree
9 July 2008

The potential impact of neuroscience research is greater than previously thought

Christopher Green

Jonathan Huang and Margaret Kosal have done an excellent job in carefully framing this discussion.

Andreas Roepstorff

An anthropologist, Roepstorff is the coordinator of cognitive research at the Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience at Aarhus University in Denmark and an associate professor of anthropology.

Christopher Green

A neuroscientist, Green is a professor of psychiatry and radiology at Wayne State University and the executive director of emergent technologies research at the Detroit Medical Center.

Jonathan Moreno

A philosopher, Moreno is the David and Lyn Silfen University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also teaches medical ethics and the history and sociolo

Opinion
3 July 2008
Climate Change

The Indian approach to climate and energy policy

Divya Badami Rao

At the end of the thirteenth meeting of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change that took place in Bali last December, the Indian delegation was relieved, happy even.

Divya Badami Rao

Rao is a research associate at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development in Bangalore, India, where she studies issues related to environmental governance and social justice.

Agree to Disagree
3 July 2008

The NRC must ensure current levels of safety and performance as nuclear fleet expands

Anthony R. Pietrangelo

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is well-positioned to effectively take on new plant licensing and maintain its oversight of operating plants and its other responsibilities.

Agree to Disagree
2 July 2008
AfricaAmericasAsiaEurope/RussiaMiddle East

The expanding range of biowarfare threats

Alan PearsonJonathan B. TuckerPal AasRalf Trapp

Scientists are developing new substances at the cross section of biology and chemistry--such as peptide bioregulators--that could be used to incapacitate and kill.

Agree to Disagree
2 July 2008

Biosecurity solutions beyond the BWC

Ralf Trapp
1 July 2008

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Volume 64 Issue 3

Columnists
1 July 2008
Climate Change

Breaking the tyranny of oil

Kurt Zenz House

Contrary to popular belief, high gasoline prices are good, and they are good precisely because high oil prices are very bad. I'll admit that doesn't sound right, but allow me to explain. I'll start with oil. Saudi Arabia, the country able to produce oil at the lowest cost, decided in 1986 to gain market share by increasing production. That caused the price of oil to collapse, and despite a momentary increase during the first Gulf War, oil prices remained low for the next 15 years.

1 July 2008

An interview with Kurt Zenz House

Kurt Zenz House
1 July 2008
It Is 5 Minutes To Midnight

Aligning Public and Private Interests to Tackle Climate Change

1 July 2008
Interview

Interview: Jacqueline Fletcher

1 July 2008
Feature

The Ever-Ready Nuclear Missileer

Nathan HodgeSharon Weinberger
Journey down the rabbit hole of the U.S. nuclear deterrent–where air force officers sit underground, ready at a moment's notice to launch thousands of nuclear-armed missiles.
1 July 2008
Feature

Target Audience

Joseph Masco
Government-produced films from the era of aboveground nuclear testing continue to shape public understanding about the effects of nuclear weapons–for better and worse.
1 July 2008
Feature

The Carbon Frontier

David Greising
Capitalist societies matured from trading manufactured goods to commoditizing interest rates, bank debt, and home equity. Now financial pioneers are literally reaching for the sky. But in monetizing Earth's atmosphere, has the
1 July 2008
Review

Minimum Deterrence

Jeffrey Lewis
1 July 2008
Nuclear notebook

Chinese Nuclear Forces, 2008

Robert S. NorrisHans M. Kristensen
1 July 2008
Turn back the clock

Science in the Seat of Power

Neal Lane
Columnists
30 June 2008
Nuclear Weapons

Establishing the next president's national security agenda: The role of the White House

Gordon Adams

As I outlined in the first part of this three-part series, the national security agenda facing the next president demands that the White House's role in setting policy and coordinating its implementation be seriously revamped.

Opinion
26 June 2008
Nuclear Weapons

COPUOS wades into the next great space debate

Theresa Hitchens

It is a well-worn cliché that the gears of international diplomacy grind at a glacial pace. Breakthroughs often are preceded by years of background work during which progress barely crawls forward. So, it is not surprising that this year's annual session of the Vienna-based U.N. Committee for Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) ended on June 20 without any decisions on the key question now bedeviling the global space community: How to ensure the long-term security of space operations in a more crowded, and more militarized, environment?

Agree to Disagree
25 June 2008

NRC should allow the public to fairly participate in its licensing hearings

Victor Gilinsky

Let's talk about something no one is happy with--citizen and state participation in Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensing hearings on nuclear plants and facilities.

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