Class war: Lenin's legacy

Class Structure and "Total War"

Facing the environmental risk issues of the cold war legacy.

During World War II and the Cold War, the United States developed a complex of industrial facilities for the research, production, and testing of nuclear weapons. In addition, the United States government supported the development of nuclear energy for commercial applications and conducted research in high-energy physics and other basic sciences, as well as medical diagnostics and treatment. Th...

Dioxin in Vietnam: fighting a legacy of war.

Singapore was the site of an East-West convergence over the week of 27 November-1 December 2000. At the behest of their respective governments, scientists from the United States and Vietnam came together for what promises to be the first of many meetings. Their mission: to explore the possibility of launching a joint research program to study the human and environmental health effects resulting...

American pediatricians at war: a legacy of service.

Americanpediatricianshavegone towar foralmostas longaspediatrics has been a specialty. A decade after Jacobi, Osler, and Forchheimer founded the American Pediatric Society in 1888, pediatricians, or “pediatrists” as they were sometimes called, were serving with the American military on foreign soil. Across more than a century of service, the role of pediatricians in armed conflict has often bee...

Cold war, hot nukes: legacy of an era.