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Stay the Course on Chemical Weapons Ban

Issues — Thu, 01 Jan 1998 05:00:00 +0000

Leave it to Washington to toil for more than two decades to create a new arms control regime that abolishes poison gas and then, once it takes off, to begin foolishly undercutting… Read More

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Solar Energy from the Tropical Oceans

Issues — Thu, 01 Jan 1998 05:00:00 +0000

The recent climate change conference in Kyoto underscored once again how profoundly the world needs new energy sources that do not produce carbon dioxide or create other environmental problems. Yet little attention… Read More

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Inventing the Future

Issues — Thu, 01 Jan 1998 05:00:00 +0000

For the past fifty years the U.S. national science and technology enterprise has evolved under the heavy influence of the engineer Vannavar Bush. Most students of science and technology policy as well… Read More

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Future Perspectives on Nuclear Issues

Issues — Thu, 01 Jan 1998 05:00:00 +0000

In the United States, we’ve traditionally optimized new advanced technologies to serve our nation’s needs; this has helped us craft an impressive economy and quality of life. With nuclear technologies, we have… Read More

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Welfare’s New Rules: A Pox on Children

Issues — Thu, 01 Jan 1998 05:00:00 +0000

Six decades of guaranteed government aid for economically deprived children ended on August 22, 1996, when President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act. The law eliminated the open-ended federal… Read More

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Is Anybody Buying Policy?

Issues — Thu, 01 Jan 1998 05:00:00 +0000

Technology Review, the venerable magazine published by the MIT Alumni Association, has decided that policy doesn’t sell. At least since 1967, when John Mattil became editor, Technology Review has devoted itself… Read More

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An Economic Strategy to Control Arms Proliferation

Issues — Thu, 01 Jan 1998 05:00:00 +0000

For 45 of the past 50 years, defense budgets were largely decoupled from economics. Vast expenditures on defense during the Cold War were debated and decided in a compartmentalized fashion, separated intellectually… Read More

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Forum – Winter 1998

Issues — Thu, 01 Jan 1998 05:00:00 +0000

Cautious arms control
William F. Burns’ “The Unfinished Work of Arms Control” (Issues, Fall 1997) summarizes the key points of one side of the debate over the role of nuclear… Read More

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Finally-A Real Defense Debate

Issues — Thu, 01 Jan 1998 05:00:00 +0000

Blue-ribbon defense commissions are often accused of treading on familiar ground in evaluating the Department of Defense’s (DOD’s) strategy and programs, offering up old wine in new bottles to the point where… Read More

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Future Implausible

Issues — Thu, 01 Jan 1998 05:00:00 +0000

I should really like this book. After all, it amply fulfills its subtitle, telling us how science will revolutionize the 21st century. And it does so with bravura and competence. The bravura… Read More

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