A Distant Light

A collection of essays by a Nobel Laureate on a wide range of critical issues facing the world, and the role of scientists in solving these problems. Kendall has been closely involved with the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group that began as an informal association at MIT in 1969 to protest US involvement in Vietnam and is today an organization with an annual budget exceeding $6 million, with 100,000 supporters worldwide.

Inhalt
Beyond March 4.- One Nuclear Power.- Press Release: Nuclear Power.- Nuclear Reactor Safety: An Evaluation of New Evidence.- Cooling Water.- Nuclear Safety.- The Failure of Nuclear Power.- Two Science.- Structure of the Proton and the Neutron.- Deep Inelastic Scattering: Experiments on the Proton and the Observation of Scaling.- Three National Security and Nuclear Weapons.- News Release: Announcing Declaration on the Nuclear Arms Race.- Declaration on the Nuclear Arms Race.- Spaced-Based Ballistic Missile Defense.- The Fallacy of Star Wars.- Accidental Nuclear War.- Dismantle Armageddon.- Four Global Environmental and Resource Issues.- Appeal by American Scientists to Prevent Global Warming.- Speech to the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee.- Press Release: Announcing World Scientists' Warning to Humanity.- World Scientists' Warning to Humanity.- Constraints on the Expansion of the Global Food Supply.- Meeting Population, Environment and Resource Challenges: The Costs of Inaction.- Bioengineering of Crops.- Five Cleanup of Radioactive Contamination.- Alternative Futures for the Department of Energy National Laboratories.- Six Current Issues.- Quenching the Wild Wells of Kuwait.- Post-Conflict Mine Clearing.- 10.1007/978-1-4419-8507-1_26.- 305.