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Relief operations in Cambodia must be based on accurate information, of which there is little. And a new scientific and medical community will have to be developed.
US physicists claim that the use of heavy ion beams is now a leading contender for commercial fusion technology — but that research efforts are being hampered by the aspirations of the military establishment. David Dickson reports
Joe Schwartz talks to Winona LaDuke and Herb Blatchford of the American Indian Environmental Council about the hazards of uranium mines in native lands
Fifteen Spanish scientists last month published an open letter to their government. They claimed that research would be brought to a halt in 1980 if the government did not act quickly to provide funds. The letter, which appears below, was communicated to us by a Barcelona scientist, Dr Juan Subirana, whose further comments appear this week in correspondence (p 424). The scientists' difficulties appear against an annual inflation rate of 25%, an extensive attempt to curb government expenditure, and a near-complete lack of scientific representation in parliament
David R Lincoln, Laurence R Landis and H Andrew Gray describe a ‘fault tree’ analysis of containment facilities which, when applied to Fort Detrick (right), enabled them to suggest how to cut the chance of an escape from one in 15 years to one in 22. The authors are from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
