APS Forum on Physics and Society - April 1996

Volume 25, Number 2 Apr 1996

• Letters
  1. Responses to "The Job Crisis and Women in Physics: J. Robert Schrieffer; Rhonda Michele Stroud; David Hafemeister, Judith E. Bush; Julia Thompson
  2. Further Responses to Vaclav Havel: James R. Sheats; Karl H. Puechl
  3. The Information Age, and the Demand for Physicists: P.W. Bo Hammer
  4. Tolerance, Shades of Gray, and Relativism: David B. Pushkin
  5. Another Way to Look at the Greenhouse Effect: Richard Williams

• Articles
  
  1. Contributions Of Arms-Control Physicists To The End Of The Cold War: Frank von Hippel
  2. Employment Issues: Engineering Physics: Richard Wilkins
  3. Ballistic Missile Defense Negotiations: Peter B. Lerner

• News
  
  1. Yuri Orlov Wins the 1996 Nicholson Medal Citation
  2. Report on the APS Council Meeting
  3. From the Chair: Report and Commentary on the APS Units Convocation
  4. From the Chair Elect
  5. Forum Sessions at the May 2-5 Meeting in Indianapolis

• Comments
  1. APS Statement on Conservation of Helium
  2. On John Ziman's "Prometheus Bound: Science in a Dynamic Steady State": Allan Walstad
  3. Reflections on Our Forum, Physics, and Society: Art Hobson