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November 1987
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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Letters
Are the UCS's SDI Surveys Biased?
Physics Today 40 (11), 126–128 (1987);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2820294
‘Half‐Truths’ of US–Japan Trade
Physics Today 40 (11), 128–129 (1987);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2820295
Search and Discovery
Articles
The Physics of Aerobatic Flight
Physics Today 40 (11), 24–30 (1987);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881117
The pilot of high‐performance aircraft must correct for the effects of many forces, but these forces can also be used to produce new families of aerobatic maneuvers.
Superstrings
Physics Today 40 (11), 33–40 (1987);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881089
Considering the elementary building blocks of nature to be strings rather than point particles allows one to construct consistent quantum theories that unify gravity with the other known forces.
Debate on APS Directed‐Energy Weapons Study
Physics Today 40 (11), 48–53 (1987);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881090
Is it unduly pessimistic to conclude that it would take a decade or more of intensive research just to determine the feasibility of shielding the US with a system of high‐intensity laser and energetic particle beam weapons?
Washington Reports
Meetings
Physics Community
Opinion
Books
Superstring Theory Volume 1: Introduction Volume 2: Loop Amplitudes, Anomalies and Phenomenology
Physics Today 40 (11), 91–92 (1987);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2820272
The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in 20th‐Century Physics
Physics Today 40 (11), 92–93 (1987);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2820274
Thermodynamics of Point Defects and Their Relation with Bulk Properties
Physics Today 40 (11), 95–96 (1987);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2820277
Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War Volume 1: Physical and Atmospheric Effects and Volume 2: Ecological and Agricultural Effects and Planet Earth in Jeopardy: Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War and The Medical Implications of Nuclear War and The Night After…: Climatic and Biological Consequences of a Nuclear War
A. Barrie Pittock; Thomas P. Ackerman; Paul J. Crutzen; Michael C. MacCracken; Charles S. Shapiro; Richard P. Turco; Mark A. Harwell; Thomas C. Hutchinson; Lydia Dotto; Frederic Solomon; Robert Q. Marston; Yevgeni Velikhov; John Dowling
Physics Today 40 (11), 97–98 (1987);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2820278
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Obituaries
Calendar
The lessons learned from ephemeral nuclei
Witold Nazarewicz; Lee G. Sobotka
FYI science policy briefs
Lindsay McKenzie; Jacob Taylor