August 2016 Issue of Physics Today Is Online & in the Mail
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In the August 2016 Issue
Do Quantum Spin Liquids Exist?
The search for the hypothetical state has been a 43-year-long slog, one whose end may now be in sight. — Takashi Imai and Young S. Lee
Meghnad Saha: Physicist and Nationalist
Deeply committed to the cause of Indian independence, Saha occasionally detoured from his physics to conduct a revolutionary mission or pen a populist manifesto. — Somaditya Banerjee
The Big Science of Stockpile Stewardship
In the quarter century since the US last exploded a nuclear weapon, an extensive research enterprise has maintained the resources and know-how needed to preserve confidence in the country’s stockpile. — Victor H. Reis, Robert J. Hanrahan, and W. Kirk Levedahl
...and much more!