Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Front Cover
Dec 1979
64 pages
Vol. 35, No. 10
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

Inflation: we're fighting yesterday's war
10
Inflation (Finance)
Renewable energies: how much and how renewable?
12
Power resources (Developing countries)
Institutional responses to Three Mile Island
20
Nuclear energy (Social aspects), Nuclear power plants (Accidents and explosions)
Recombinant DNA and regulating uncertainty
26
Genetic research
Chemical weapons: too late for disarmament?
33
Chemical and biological weapons (Disarmament)
Resource trends and population policy: a time for reassessment (Book Review)
38
Paul Jacobs and the nuclear gang
44
Motion pictures (Documentary films)
U.S. anti-nuclear movement
45
Anti-nuclear movement
UNCSTD was not a technical failure
50
United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development
Personal reflection
53
United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development
Reverse chain reaction
58
Nuclear disarmament

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