Sen. Pete Domenici on the Future of Nuclear Technology
Every issue explores cutting-edge developments in technology, medicine, education, climate change, and much more. Articles provide in-depth analyses of science and technology’s impact on public policy, the economy, and society—bringing today’s best minds to bear on tomorrow’s most critical topics.
Editor's Journal
Is Anybody Buying Policy?
Technology Review, the venerable magazine published by the MIT Alumni Association, has decided that policy doesn’t sell. At least since 1967, when John Mattil became editor, Technology Review has devoted itself… Read More
Perspectives
Stay the Course on Chemical Weapons Ban
Leave it to Washington to toil for more than two decades to create a new arms control regime that abolishes poison gas and then, once it takes off, to begin foolishly undercutting… Read More
Features
Solar Energy from the Tropical Oceans
The recent climate change conference in Kyoto underscored once again how profoundly the world needs new energy sources that do not produce carbon dioxide or create other environmental problems. Yet little attention… Read MoreFuture Perspectives on Nuclear Issues
In the United States, we’ve traditionally optimized new advanced technologies to serve our nation’s needs; this has helped us craft an impressive economy and quality of life. With nuclear technologies, we have… Read MoreWelfare’s New Rules: A Pox on Children
Six decades of guaranteed government aid for economically deprived children ended on August 22, 1996, when President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act. The law eliminated the open-ended federal… Read MoreAn Economic Strategy to Control Arms Proliferation
For 45 of the past 50 years, defense budgets were largely decoupled from economics. Vast expenditures on defense during the Cold War were debated and decided in a compartmentalized fashion, separated intellectually… Read MoreRefocusing U.S. Math and Science Education
The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is the most ambitious cross-national educational research study ever conducted, comparing over half a million students’ scores in mathematics and science across 5 continents… Read MoreFinally-A Real Defense Debate
Blue-ribbon defense commissions are often accused of treading on familiar ground in evaluating the Department of Defense’s (DOD’s) strategy and programs, offering up old wine in new bottles to the point where… Read MoreBolstering Military Strength By Downsizing the Pentagon
Secretary of Defense William Cohen is caught between a rock and a hard place. Critics from both the right and the left contend that the U.S. military cannot continue to execute its… Read More
Book Reviews
Putting a Price Tag on Nature
The contributors to Nature’s Services, who include many of the nation’s leading natural scientists, have taken on the enormous tasks of, first, characterizing the ways in which Earth’s natural ecosystems confer benefits… Read More
Inventing the Future
For the past fifty years the U.S. national science and technology enterprise has evolved under the heavy influence of the engineer Vannavar Bush. Most students of science and technology policy as well… Read More
Future Implausible
I should really like this book. After all, it amply fulfills its subtitle, telling us how science will revolutionize the 21st century. And it does so with bravura and competence. The bravura… Read More