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While a British committee is considering the question whether the United Kingdom can afford to remain a member of the European high-energy physics consortium CERN, particle physics itself is at an exciting stage. Here a British theorist describes the prospects for the coming decade.
The National Academy of Sciences has at last reported on the nuclear winter. It clarifies the scientific uncertainties that affect other important climatic models.
