INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON NUCLEAR WAR

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• OPENING SESSION

  • Opening of Seminar

• MESSAGES

• CONTRIBUTIONS

  • 1. CONVERSION OF MILITARY RESOURCES

    • New Projects: From Technologies of War to Technologies of Peace

    • Brilliant Eyes

    • Conversion of Military Resources What Has Been Done in China

    • The Role of the World Lab in the USSR

    • The Path to Tunable X-Ray Lasers for Biological Research

    • Transmutation of Waste Using Particle Accelerators

  • 2. IMPROVING ENERGY EFFICIENCY

    • Earth Based Power Transmission System

    • Renewable Energy in China

    • Proposal to the World Lab: A Global Energy Efficiency Initiative

  • 3. NON-FOSSIL ENERGY SOURCES

    • Fission Nuclear Power Prospects and Its Role in Mitigating Potential Global Warming

    • Planetary Emergencies

    • Prospects for Renewable Power Sources to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

    • Fusion Research in China

  • 4. AIDS

    • Biomedical Research Priorities on AIDS for Developing Countries

    • Social and Scientific Aspects of the AIDS Epidemic

    • AIDS Control in China

    • HTLV-I: An Old Human Retrovirus with Recently Discovered Pathogenic Potential

    • Strategy for Vaccine Development and Delivery in Poor and Rich Countries

    • The Role of HIV Regulatory Genes in Viral Replication and Pathogenesis

    • Progress Report on AIDS Vaccine and Immunotherapy

    • Genetic Variation of Human Retroviruses as a Mean to Understand Their Origin and Evolution. The Use of HIV-2 in Animals as a Tool for the Development of a Vaccine for Humans

  • 5. REGIONAL WORLD LAB PROJECTS

    • Ukranian Section of the World Lab Activity

    • Georgian Section of the World Lab Activity

    • Dedicated VLBI Network QUASAR

    • Electromagnetic Sounding of the Earth by the Use of Natural and Controlled Sources

  • 6. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING

    • Status of Greenhouse Gases Increase and Ozone Depletion

    • The Chernobyl Environmental Problems

    • Ecological Station of Environmental Control ESCOS: Problems, Organization, Perspectives

  • 7. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPING NATIONS

    • Advanced Science and Technology in China: The CCAST — World Lab Project

    • The World Laboratory Project (E-10) on Electron Spectroscopy for Materials

    • Establishment of a Meteorology Emergency Centre for Developing Countries in the Mediterranean Area

    • Climatic Consequences of the Greenhouse Effect in the Mediterranean Region

    • The New Broad-Band Seismic Networks: Tools for the Prevention of Earth Catastrophes

  • 8. THE PROBLEM OF THE SOIL AND THE POPULATION INCREASE: 6 BILLION IN THE YEAR 2000

    • A Planetary Emergency: The Soil

    • Arable Soil and Large Population in China

  • 9. GREENHOUSE GASES AND THE OZONE PROBLEM

    • Energy R&D to Counter Global Climate Change

    • Primary Estimation of Emissions of Several Kinds of Greenhouse Gases in China

    • Research Needs for a Sustainable World: An Agenda for the World Lab

    • Sources of Methane in China: Rice Fields, Giogas Pits, Cattle and Industrial

  • 10. THE CHEMICAL WEAPON PROBLEM

    • Suggestions on Banning of Chemical Weapons

  • 11. THE WORLD LAB BRANCH IN THE USSR

    • The World Lab Branch in the USSR

  • 12. COMMON PROJECT AGAINST COSMIC OBJECTS

    • Common Project Against Cosmic Objects

• CLOSING SESSION

  • T. D. Lee

  • W. E. Zagotta

  • Zhou Guangzhao

  • E. P. Velikhov

  • K. Siegbahn

  • E. Teller

• CONCLUSION

  • Conclusions

  • Erice Statement 1990

  • One Opinion on the 10th Anniversary in Erice

• LIST OF PARTICIPANTS