Two eminent scientists offer a global approach to issues of security and development.
In this "blue-sky" effort to rethink humanity's basic challenges, Philip Morrison and Kosta Tsipis―both eminent scientists with deep expertise in arms control issues―sketch the broad outlines for a global approach to the problems of security and development. Their goal is to set priorities for feasible action, and their focus is threefold: war and particularly the continuing dangers of nuclear weapons, population and the promotion of increased levels of human well-being, and the threat of environmental degradation.Although their topics are global, the authors focus on the actions of the United States. In their discussion of nuclear options, for example, they argue that reducing American military expenditures can be a catalyst for lowering the world's nuclear risk, establishing a policy of "common security" in response to conventional war, and freeing resources that will allow substantial steps toward "common development." In their discussion of human needs, the authors emphasize the fact that the rate of annual growth in the world's population peaked between 1967 and 1970 and has declined steadily ever since; we can therefore now project what the near steady-state level might be. This topping off of population growth should give us a new baseline from which to address both development and environmental issues.

Reason Enough to Hope: America and the World of the Twenty-first Century

Politics & Social Sciences

Morrison, Philip

Tsipis, Kosta

Politics & Government

Mit Pr

In this "blue-sky" effort to rethink humanity's basic challenges, Philip Morrison and Kosta Tsipis--both eminent scientists with deep expertise in arms control issues--sketch the broad outlines for a global approach to the problems of security and development. Their goal is to set priorities for feasible action, and their focus is threefold: war and particularly the continuing dangers of nuclear weapons, population and the promotion of increased levels of human well-being, and the threat of environmental degradation.Although their topics are global, the authors focus on the actions of the United States. In their discussion of nuclear options, for example, they argue that reducing American military expenditures can be a catalyst for lowering the world's nuclear risk, establishing a policy of "common security" in response to conventional war, and freeing resources that will allow substantial steps toward "common development." In their discussion of human needs, the authors emphasize the fact that the rate of annual growth in the world's population peaked between 1967 and 1970 and has declined steadily ever since; we can therefore now project what the near steady-state level might be. This topping off of population growth should give us a new baseline from which to address both development and environmental issues.

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

MIT Press]

Explores the process of scientific investigation and the scientist's efforts to understand the natural world

The Ring of Truth: Inquiry Into How We Know What We Know - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Science & Math

Random House]

This compact treatment of the basic theory of nuclear forces, structures, and reactions bases its explanations almost entirely on the familiar results of nonrelativistic quantum theory. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, it presents careful and concise discussions of experimental ideas. The three-part treatment begins with the descriptive theory of nuclei, covering basic facts, including size, spins and statistics, and beta-disintegration and the neutrino. The second part explores quantitative theory of nuclear forces, covering physical properties of protons, neutrons, and deuterons; scattering; and effects of molecular binding and of non-central forces. The final section examines complex nuclei and beta-decay, including nuclear reactions, scattering, and beta-disintegration.

Elementary Nuclear Theory: Second Edition (Dover Books on Physics)

Bethe, Hans A.

Physics

Dover Publications

Explores the process of scientific investigation and the scientist's efforts to understand the natural world

The Ring of Truth

Random House Value Publishing

Explores the nature of scientific theory and how we search for answers, drawing from examples such as Thomas Jefferson's surveying techniques and mathematics, map-making, and geology

The Ring of Truth: An Inquiry into How We Know What We Know

Vintage

Photographs take the reader from distant galaxies to our solar system

Powers of Ten: About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe

Morrison, Phylis

Astronomy & Space Science

W.H.Freeman & Company

Sm Quarto, , PP.351, His Reviews Of A Hundred Memorable Science Books

Philip Morrison's Long Look at the Literature: His Reviews of a Hundred Memorable Science Books

Literature & Fiction

W.H.Freeman & Co.

Philip Morrison's Long Look at the Literature : His Reviews of a Hundred Memorable Books [paperback] Morrison, Philip [Jan 01, 1990]

Philip Morrison's Long Look at the Literature : His Reviews of a Hundred Memorable Books

Over 100,000 copies of this spectacular journey have already been sold. In forty-two consecutive scenes, each at a different `power of ten` level of magnification, readers are taken from the dimension of one billion light years to the realm of the atom. The text and other illustrations depict what we can perceive at each progressively smaller level of magnitude. " A brilliant pictorial and textual embodiment of a wonderful idea. " Stephen Jay Gould Videos of Powers of Ten are available from: RITELtd. Cross Tree, Walton Street, Walton in Gordano, Clevedon, Avon BS21 7AW Tel: 01275-340279 Fax: 01275-340327

Powers of Ten (Revised) (Scientific American Library Paperback)

Scientific American Library

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Reason Enough to Hope: America and the World of the Twenty-first Century

Reason Enough to Hope: America and the World of the Twenty-first Century

The Ring of Truth: Inquiry Into How We Know What We Know - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Elementary Nuclear Theory: Second Edition (Dover Books on Physics)

The Ring of Truth

The Ring of Truth: An Inquiry into How We Know What We Know

Powers of Ten: About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe

Philip Morrison's Long Look at the Literature: His Reviews of a Hundred Memorable Science Books

Philip Morrison's Long Look at the Literature : His Reviews of a Hundred Memorable Books

Powers of Ten (Revised) (Scientific American Library Paperback)