Opinion

The Kendrew committee has given the expected opinion on whether Britain should pull out of high-energy physics. But was it asked the right question?

President Reagan's recent reforms go only part of the way towards fairness.

This week's debate in the House of Commons about the British government's handling of research and the universities could be a turning point, but the critics must take careful aim.

West European governments are warming to the French proposal for a combined venture in high technology. The motives are political, but the risks are high.

The British government should not attempt to measure institutional efficiency.

Only colleagues can judge the value and authenticity of a person's work.

Last week's shuttle flight shows that the Strategic Defense Initiative has a lot to learn.

This week's European summit meeting at Milan is an opportunity both for stimulating technical collaboration and to create a muddle. Governments should temper enthusiasm with cold calculation.

The US Department of Energy thinks the laser enrichment of uranium feasible; that is bad news.

Now it seems that Britain will stay in high-energy physics for the time being, high-energy physics has an obligation to mitigate the squeeze on general research.

The British government's latest policy document on higher education is a disgrace. Academics now have nothing to lose but the tenure of their jobs (itself proscribed).

Last week's summit meeting in Bonn was no more of a failure than its predecessors. These meetings do not settle issues, but have the virtue of putting them on the international agenda.

Business in the United States, always inventive, seems bent on turning fiction into truth.

Managing British astronomy is up for talks. Here is a recipe for the committee responsible.

The Pentagon recipe for testing star wars technology without technically violating the anti-ballistic missile treaty is an artificial exercise likely to do more harm than good.