Controlling Iran’s Nuclear Program
Cirincione, Joseph
The country’s slow and indirect progress toward developing nuclear weapons cun…
Category: Issues in Science and Technology
Heading off the permanent oil crisis
MacKenzie, James J
The 1996 spike in gasoline prices was not a signal of any fundamental worldw…
A makeover for engineering education
Wulf, WM A
Today’s engineering schools are not preparing their graduates as well as they might …
UN forges program to combat illicit trade in small arms
Klare, Michael T
UPDATE
Since the early 1990s, a global network of ar…
Nonlethal weapons: New tools for peace
Alexander, Lexi R
When U.S. Marines landed in Somalia in late February 1995 to support the fi…
Winning greater influence for science
Yankelovich, Daniel
In this space 20 years ago, I reported on the unwritten social contract be…
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The future of nuclear deterrence
Re: “Nuclear Deterrence for the Future” (Thomas C. Schelling, Issues, Fall 2006). I add some…
population conundrum, The
Eldredge, Niles
How Many People Can the Earth Support?, by Joel E. Cohen. New York and London: W.W.Norton …
Saving Earth’s Rivers
Richter, Brian
The odds do not look good for the future of the planet’s rivers. As populations and economies g…
Testy about testing
Finneran, Kevin
Discussions of standardized testing often seem to be about anything but the tests themselves. Ad…
