April 2017 Issue of Physics Today Is Online & in the Mail
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In the April 2017 Issue
From Sound to Meaning
Culture and experience contribute to the process that translates a complex acoustic stimulus into an intelligible message. — Emily B. Myers
Was the first Soviet thermonuclear device really a step in the wrong direction? — Alex Wellerstein and Edward Geist
Sakharov, Gorbachev, and Nuclear Reductions
Two years before his death in 1989, Andrei Sakharov’s comments at a scientists’ forum helped set the stage for the elimination of thousands of nuclear ballistic missiles from the US and Soviet arsenals. — Frank N. von Hippel
...and much more!