ON THE COVER:
The Tandem Mirror Experiment (TMX) in construction in the late 1970s. Photo courtesy of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; cover design by Alan Yue.
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SCIENCE FOR LEGISLATORS
Is the Fear of Radiation Constitutional?
Laurence Hecht
A primer to help the present majority of
misinformed policymakers and citizens to
learn the truth about radiation, and the wonderful
power for good that it holds out for mankind.
Thoughts on Fusion Energy Development
After a Six-Decades-Long Love Affair
Richard F. Post
A fusion pioneer reviews 60 years of fusion
history, and proposes the axisymmetric tandem
mirror as a fast track to achieving ignition with
magnetic confinement fusion, bypassing some
of the problems with large tokamaks.
INTERVIEW: RICHARD F. POST
A Fusion Pioneer Talks About Fusion
And How to Get There
Nuclear power is essential for the United States
to recover from the ongoing breakdown crisis and
become economically productive again.
Laser Fusion: 'Yes We Can'
Laurence Hecht
SPECIAL REPORT
With DDT Spraying, Malaysia Can
Show the World How to Control Dengue
Mohd Peter Davis
A Malaysian scientist proposes a pilot project to test a program using DDT to control dengue.
The True Story of DDT
Przemyslaw Mastalerz
A chemist looks at the voluminous scientific literature, and concludes that DDT is not hazardous to human health.
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NUCLEAR REPORT
Downwinders Deluded
And Waiting to Die
Daniel Miles
Excerpts from Miles's book, The
Phantom Fallout-Induced Cancer
Epidemic in Southwestern Utah
EDITORIAL
Mars: The Next 50 Years
Marsha Freeman
LETTERS
RESEARCH COMMUNICATION
The Secret of the Supercentarians
Rick Sanders
VIEWPOINT
Malaysia is Going Nuclear!
Mohd Peter Davis
CONFERENCE REPORT
American Chemical Society:
Milking Soybeans for Moonbeams
Gregory Murphy
GLOBAL WARMING UPDATE
Compiled by Gregory Murphy
BOOKS
Krafft Ehricke's Extraterrestrial
Imperative
by Marsha Freeman
Reviewed by Oyang Teng
LaRouche Youth Movement
Sun in a Bottle: The Strange
History of Fusion and the
Science of Wishful Thinking
by Charles Seife
Reviewed by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
Sunken Realms: A Survey of
Underwater Ruins from Around
the World and a Complete
Catalog of Underwater Ruins
by Karen Mutton
Reviewed by Charles Hughes
Uranium: War, Energy, and the
Rock That Shaped the World
by Tom Zoellner
Reviewed by Glenn Mesaros
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