Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines | Richard A. Muller

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	Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines Richard A. Muller W. W. Norton & Company, 2009 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 70 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

?A triumph.??Steve Weinberg, Boston Globe This is ?must-have? information for all presidents?and citizens?of the twenty-first century: Is Iran?s nascent nuclear capability a genuine threat to the West? Are biochemical weapons likely to be developed by terrorists? Are there viable alternatives to fossil fuels that should be nurtured and supported by the government? Should nuclear power be encouraged? Can global warming be stopped? 73 figures and illustrations.

Physics for Future Presidents review by JC

Easy reading, informative, not overly technical, but useful to anyone who wants to gain valuable knowledge on their own. After I finish the book, I intend going back and re-reading to get a better comprehension of all that is presented in the book.

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Physics for Future Presidents

This book should be required reading for every American. It's current and timely in its content. Written by a Physicist, its succinct and readable. It separates the facts from the hype/politics on a very large array of current issues. Subjects range from terrorism, 911, nuclear terrorism, global warming, clean and sustainable energy, just to name a few. If you are interested in these subjects or want to converse in them, this book is the place to start.

First two thirds of book is simple but great, last third is speculative garbage

The first two thirds of the book deals with nuclear power, bombs, and even gravity. While most of it is pretty basic as far as those subjects go, I found the book HIGHLY entertaining and informative even when reading about subjects I didn't feel I needed a refresher on. I thought for sure this book would be a 5-star must-read. I wish it had more on biological warfare since the author believes it to be a larger threat than nuclear weapons, but the author does not go into biological warfare since it isn't physics-based.

Yet the author has no problem deviating from science for global warming, where he even makes a point to say that a president can't trust all the facts out there on the subject. So far, so good, but the author then goes on to promote the falsified (yet famous) "hockey stick" temperature data graph and all its implications. For someone advocating truth, he should have known better than to trust data with such huge political ramifications. The implications proposed from said data are admittedly speculative, while the rest of the book is grounded in what is and is not physically possible.

That makes the first 2/3rds of the book great (5 stars) and the last third of the book pure rubbish. The author great talking about his field of study, nuclear power, but then he basically tells you to go watch An Inconvenient Truth, a movie made by perhaps the greatest evil genius of our time.

Although the book may be written for presidents, the book tries hard not to delve into politics. I couldn't help but think that some of the things discussed aren't among the enumerated powers of the federal government as listed in the Constitution, ergo the book should probably be titled, "Physics for state governors," or in other cases, "Physics for Congressmen."

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