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The Carter administration is expected to decide next month which of a variety of possible basing modes it will adopt for the deployment of its new generation of intercontinental missiles, the MX. Richard Garwin here discusses how the alternatives relate to the current agreement on strategic arms limitation being negotiated with the USSR.
In 1916 Arthur Eddington, at the age of 34, was Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge, director of the university observatory and Secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society. This piece, contributed for the then equivalent of News and Views was one of the earliest simplified expositions of the General Theory in English. The author's name was inscribed over the first paragraph by the editor, Sir Norman Lockyer.
This brief collection of direct and indirect quotations by or about Albert Einstein is offered as a tribute in honour of the centenary of his birth. The selection makes no attempt to be complete but does try to be representative of his attitude towards science and mathematics. As this selection is addressed to a primarily scientific audience, his views concerning his two most important creations, quantum theory and relativity, are particularly stressed toward the end.
