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| The Pontifical Academy of Sciences | 3 | |
| Improving natural knowledge : the first hundred years of the Royal Society, 1660-1760 | 15 | |
| The Academie des Sciences and French Centralisation | 21 | |
| The 40th anniversary of the 'Ettore Majorana' Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture | 28 | |
| The Academia Europaea | 41 | |
| Climate change and the cosmic ray connection | 47 | |
| Climate change effects on species and biodiversity | 59 | |
| New fingerprints of human effects on climate | 69 | |
| Paleoclimate implications for recent human influence on climate | 86 | |
| Evidence for global warming | 92 | |
| The emerging science of endocrine disruption | 105 | |
| Containment of legacy wastes during stewardship | 125 | |
| Public involvement and communication in the long-term management of U.S. nuclear waste sites | 130 | |
| A European perspective on stakeholder involvement in nuclear waste management | 135 | |
| Hazardous waste management in Southeast Asia | 140 | |
| Responding to Fermi's warning : Japanese approach to dealing with radioactive waste problems | 150 | |
| The U.S. approach to the science and technology of legacy waste management | 157 | |
| Spin in war and peace | 163 | |
| Cultural intolerance | 169 | |
| The impact of the planetary emergencies on worldwide productivity and cooperation with the international scientific community | 174 | |
| War on terrorism : a search for focus | 180 | |
| Iraq after Saddam : an Iraqi perspective | 184 | |
| Health and security : severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) : taking a new threat seriously | 191 | |
| Professional responsibilities of biomedical scientists in public discourse | 196 | |
| Ethics, justice and statistics | 212 | |
| Is access to HIV/AIDS treatment a human right? : lessons learned from the Brazilian experience | 218 | |
| Systemic and mucosal immune responses induced by HIV-1 DNA and HIV-peptide or VLP booster immunization | 229 | |
| Pre-clinical primate vaccine studies | 243 | |
| Preparing for phase I/II HIV vaccine trials in South Africa and planning for phase III trials | 247 | |
| The politics of water | 255 | |
| The utilization of water resources for agriculture in Syria : analysis of the current situation and future challenges | 263 | |
| The lower Jordan River | 275 | |
| Challenges to water management in the Middle East | 289 | |
| Seawater intrusion into the Gaza coastal aquifer as an example for water and environment inter-linked actions | 299 | |
| Report of the open forum debate on terrorism | 313 | |
| Energy in developing countries - is it a special case? | 317 | |
| Some perspectives on the prospects of nuclear energy in the developing world and Asia | 326 | |
| Applications of biotechnology to mitigation of greenhouse warming | 335 | |
| Mother and child permanent monitoring panel report | 349 | |
| Limits of development permanent monitoring panel report | 351 | |
| Urban mobility in the Mexican metropolis | 359 | |
| Mobility in megacities : Indian scenario | 374 | |
| World federation of scientists permanent monitoring panel on information security : panel report | 383 | |
| Toward a universal order of cyberspace : managing threats from cybercrime to cyberwar | ||
| Permanent monitoring panels on floods and unexpected meteorological events, water and climate : panel report | 436 | |
| Pollution permanent monitoring panel report | 439 | |
| Energy permanent monitoring panel report | 443 | |
| Syria's renewable energy master plan : a message from the government | 456 | |
| Status of nuclear energy | 471 | |
| Energy demand growth in China : the crucial role of energy efficiency programs | 477 | |
| Risk analysis permanent monitoring panel report | 488 | |
| The pillars of international security : traditions challenged | 490 | |
| Safety as a result of providing information | 495 | |
| Anticipatory defense : its fundamental logic and implications | 498 | |
| Desertification permanent monitoring panel report | 512 | |
| Endocrine disrupting chemicals permanent monitoring panel report | 516 | |
| Monitoring and stewardship of legacy nuclear and hazardous waste sites | 519 | |
| Achieving stewardship and contributing to a sustainable society through stakeholder involvement | 522 | |
| Radioactive waste of defense activities in the 20th century - handling and management | 526 | |
| International cooperation to address the radioactive legacy in states of the former Soviet Union | 534 | |
| Contamination and vulnerability of groundwater resources in Russia | 545 | |
| Joint working group report of AIDS and infectious diseases PMP and mother and child health PMP | 551 |
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Allen Braswell
reviewed International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies: 30th Session on November 11, 2008 International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies
The book opens with the mass poisoning of thousands of people in Bangladesh by drinking water contaminated with arsenic. This book has a very important current environmental message for all of us because environmental arsenic is not just a problem facing Bangladesh. There is a USGS map on page 161 showing the states in the U.S. where acquifers used for drinking water contain dangerously high levels of arsenic. As a cancer patient, I have often wondered why I keep meeting people who are being treated for cancer but are in none of the high-risk groups. I was surprised to read in this book that years of exposure to water contaminated with non-lethal levels of arsenic causes lung cancer. Unfortunately, this surprising information is floating around in a hodge-podge of history and unrelated anecdotes.
I would have assumed that a major publishing company like Macmillan still employed editors in 2005 but, apparently, I was wrong. The author is obviously extremely knowledgeable, and the separate topics he addresses are all interesting but the book is totally disjointed.
I imagine that the author wrote a long academic article addressing the arsenic contaminated well water in Bangladesh, a medium length exposé on the history and ethics of William Morris & Company. Someone remarked "You have almost enough material for a book." The author tossed in a short popular article on the worldwide problem of environmental arsenic, and several short sensational anecdotes about murders committed using arsenic and mailed the separate articles to Macmillan. His publisher dropped the articles on the floor, told an intern to put them back in order and then published them.
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