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The Air Force at a Crossroads

Issues — Wed, 01 Jan 1997 05:00:00 +0000

On the night of January 16-17, 1991, the United States launched an air war against Iraq after diplomatic efforts to end that country’s invasion of Kuwait had failed. U.S. air and naval… Read More

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In Defense of Environmentalism

Issues — Wed, 01 Jan 1997 05:00:00 +0000

The Betrayal of Science and Reason is the most important rejoinder to date to the “brownlash” (as the Ehrlichs call it) of anti-environmental writing. The bulk of the book is devoted to… Read More

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Time to Restructure U.S. Defense Forces

Issues — Wed, 01 Jan 1997 05:00:00 +0000

With the election behind us, the Pentagon is gearing up to conduct a congressionally required top-to-bottom review of its six-year, $1.5-trillion program. In doing so, it will confront a number of difficult… Read More

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In Numbers We Trust

Issues — Wed, 01 Jan 1997 05:00:00 +0000

Our scientific culture, and much of our public life, is based on trust in numbers. They are commonly accepted as the means to achieving objectivity in analysis, certainty in conclusions, and truth.… Read More

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Eliminating Excess Defense Production

Issues — Wed, 01 Jan 1997 05:00:00 +0000

Throughout history, each time our nation has ended a war we have cut back our weapons arsenals and smartly propped up R&D to prepare for future enemies. But since the Cold War’s… Read More

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Rethinking the Car of the Future

Issues — Wed, 01 Jan 1997 05:00:00 +0000

On September 29, 1993, President Clinton and the chief executive officers of Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors (the “Big Three”) announced the creation of what was to become known as the Partnership… Read More

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The Dual-Use Dilemma

Issues — Wed, 01 Jan 1997 05:00:00 +0000

The Clinton administration began with high hopes for its plan to forge a stronger link between military and commercial technologies. Observers inside as well as outside the administration argued that the Technology… Read More

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Reining in Military Overkill

Issues — Wed, 01 Jan 1997 05:00:00 +0000

The end of the Cold War set off contentious debate about what constitutes the most effective and least expensive security policy for the United States. A central issue has been the size,… Read More

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Politics on the Net

Issues — Wed, 01 Jan 1997 05:00:00 +0000

Halfway through her new book Electronic Democracy, Graeme Browning, a science and technology reporter for the National Journal, observes that the study of Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg should be required… Read More

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Does NIH Need a DARPA?

Issues — Wed, 01 Jan 1997 05:00:00 +0000

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of its Division of Research Grants with a symposium on peer review. NIH Director Harold Varmus introduced the theme of the… Read More

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