Preventing nuclear proliferation; New roles for nuclear weapons; Deterring nuclear terrorists; How soon for hydrogen?; Federal R&D funding; Saving Earth's rivers; Energy futures; Climate change caution; Can coal come clean?

Most R&D agencies prepare for budget cuts in fiscal year 2006.

David Korn
Stephen Heinig
Recoupment Efforts Threaten Federal Research

Roger A. Pielke, Jr.
What Is Climate Change?

Mark A. R. Kleiman
Flying Blind on Drug Control Policy

James A. Van Allen
Is Human Spaceflight Obsolete?

Diana Hicks
Asian countries strengthen their research

Environmental weatherman (Review of Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment)

Out of the bottle (Review of Living With the Genie: Essays on Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery)

Energy futures (Review of Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties)

Arnold O. Beckman.

Jerry F. Franklin
K. Norman Johnson

Forests Face New Threat: Global Market Changes

Richard Levin

A Patent System for the 21st Century

Jay Apt
Lester B. Lave
Sarosh Talukdar
M. Granger Morgan
Marija Ilic

Electrical Blackouts: A Systemic Problem

S. J. Deitchman

Completing the Transformation of U.S. Military Forces

Anne E. Preston

Plugging the Leaks in the Scientific Workforce