Hot physics in the Cold War

Cold war battle against hot atherosclerotic plaques.

Atherosclerotic disease develops over decades, which makes it difficult to study the temporal changes in remodeling processes during initiation, progression, and destabilization of vascular lesions. The mechanisms and current concepts of atherosclerotic plaque stabilization and destabilization in literature have mainly been based on human pathological observations. The natural history of advanc...

Cold war, hot nukes: legacy of an era.

The new cold war

As researchers for the Defence Research and Development Canada, attending field trials, military exercises and operations for data collection purposes is a common and exciting part of the job. Over the past few years while conducting research during Arctic operations (Figure 1) we have experienced the challenges of trying to conduct basics tasks outside in the extreme cold. As civilian scientis...

The Cold War in Biology

This challenge to many of the cherished dogmas of genetics and evolution is fascinating reading. Lindegren's comments concerning the suppression of views which challenge the underlying assumptions of scientific research are particularly poignant in view of his difficulty in getting this book published, even though he is an outstanding geneticist. The first chapter, "The Game of Science," and th...

During the Cold War

The first in this series Of three articles, published in the September-October 1997 issue of ARMOR. addressed American lank developmenJ during the HbrJd \\brs. This article focuses upon lhe Cold "'b, era prior to the development of the M I Abrams, illustrating the injlutnu oj the Soviet military threat. The desire to field a technologically superior lank that would more than offset Soviet numer...