Nuclear Weapons and Related Security Issues; Washington, DC, USA 21-22 April 2017, Conference collection Volume 1898

Various paginations. Illustrations. Footnotes. References. Among the topics addressed are Strategic Nuclear Weapons, Multilateral Arms Control, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Terrorism, and Appendices. Appendices includes a WMD Chronology, Author Bio-briefs, and Conference participants. Among the specific items of significant interest are: Sakharov, Gorbachev, and nuclear reductions by Frank von Hippel; Lab-to-Lab Cooperative Threat Reduction by Siegfried S. Hecker; International Atomic Energy Agency Safeguards: Challenge and response by Leonard S. Spector and The big science of stockpile stewardship by Victor Reis, Robert Hanrahan, and Kirk Levedahl! The American Institute of Physics (AIP) promotes science and the profession of physics, publishes physics journals, and produces publications for scientific and engineering societies. The AIP is made up of various member societies. Its corporate headquarters are at the American Center for Physics in College Park, Maryland, but the institute also has offices in Melville, New York, and Beijing. The focus of the AIP appears to be organized around a set of core activities. The first delineated activity is to support member societies regarding essential society functions. This is accomplished by annually convening the various society officers to discuss common areas of concern. A range of topics is discussed which includes scientific publishing, public policy issues, membership-base issues, philanthropic giving, science education, science careers for a diverse population, and a forum for sharing ideas. Another core activity is publishing the science of physics in research journals, magazines, and conference proceedings. Member societies continue nevertheless to publish their own journals. Other core activities are tracking employment and education trends with six decades of coverage, being a liaison between research science and industry, historical collections and physics outreach programs, and supporting science education initiatives and supporting undergraduate physics. One other core activity is as an advocate for science policy to the U.S. Congress and the general public. The AIP was founded in 1931 as a response to lack of funding for the sciences during the Great Depression. It formally incorporated in 1932 consisting of five original "member societies", and a total of four thousand members. A new set of member societies was added beginning in the mid-1960s. As soon as the AIP was established it began publishing scientific journals. Fine [removed from shrinkwrap for cataloguing].…