Science and Civil Defense

Nuclear attack and civil defense : a review

Subsequent events seem to indicate that, when President Kennedy, in July of 1961, made his appeal for family fallout shelters, he was not doing so because he thought the shelters would protect a large part of the public from a likely nuclear attack. Rather, it seems, his intent in the shelter program, as in the call-up of reserves that took place at about the same time, was to enhance the credi...

Science, ethics, and civil law.

Big Data, Data Science, and Civil Rights

Advances in data analytics bring with them civil rights implications. Data-driven and algorithmic decision making increasingly determine how businesses target advertisements to consumers, how police departments monitor individuals or groups, how banks decide who gets a loan and who does not, how employers hire, how colleges and universities make admissions and financial aid decisions, and much ...

[Catastrophe protection and civil defense in public health].

Venezuelan science: a professor's defense.

509 COVER Like solving a puzzle whose pieces themselves change shape, ecologists around the world are developing techniques to restore degraded and exploited ecosystems. See the special section beginning on page 555.