International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies : 43rd session [...], "E. Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, 19-24 August 2010 / series editor and chairman A. Zichichi ; edited by R. Ragaini.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Science in the third millennium. Why science is needed for the culture of the third millennium : the motor for progress / Antonino Zichichi. Quantum electrodynamics, electron anomalous magnetic moment and fine structure constant / Toichiro Kinoshita. The potential impact of the irrational on the success of science / Lord John Alderdice. Science and the future of cyberspace : an ITU perspective / Hamadoun Toure. The evolving nuclear weapon threat to society / Richard L. Garwin. Energy and the environment in the next millennium / Richard Wilson. Science of chemistry and chemical security in the third millennium / Valery P. Kukhar. How to avoid having research funding fashion kill the goose that lays the golden eggs / Christopher Essex. The investigation of human brain function by physical methods : a central frontier for science and a way to encounter the emergency of the neurodegenerative diseases / Bruno Maraviglia. Global brightening and climate sensitivity / Christopher Monckton of Brenchley -- 2. Energy. Focus : passive safety in nuclear power plants. Overview of passive safety features of advanced light water reactors / Robert J. Budnitz. Passive safety features for small modular reactors / Daniel T. Ingersoll. Sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) safety / Tanju Sofu -- 3. Energy and pollution. Focus : oil spills and deep water drilling. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill and deepwater oil drilling : introduction / Carmen Difiglio. Approaches and solutions to taming a wild deep-sea oil well / Richard L. Garwin. Ecological impacts of the Gulf oil spill : from wetlands and animals to ecosystem and net energy / John W. Day, Jr. Toxicology and public health factors of the use of dispersants in the Gulf oil spill / LuAnn E. White -- 4. Energy. Focus : science for sustainable energy systems. Science for energy technology : discovering silver bullets / William Fulkerson. Photon science, a disruptive wildcard / William A. Barletta. Science advances relative to energy efficiency and renewable energy : some observations from China / Xiliang Zhang. Fusion for the third millennium / Jef Ongena ... [and others]. Smart grids / Hisham Khatib. Ambitious targets for energy research and development / Bruce Stram. Fast reactors when? / Richard L. Garwin. 5. Information security. Focus : cyber conflicts and cyber stability finding a path to cyber peace. Science as a prime mover in the construction of a safe and stable order of cyber space / Henning Wegener. From a digital divide to a security divide / Jody Westby. Web science for security and trust on the web -- short introduction / Jacques Bus. The new wave of global communication -- the future internet (a new challenge to interdisciplinary research) / Zenonas Rudzikas and Algimantas Juozapavicius. Ensuring cyberpeace in a new world order / Hamadoun I. Toure -- 6. Pollution. Focus : air, water and waste scientific criteria. Determining which types of fine particles in ambient air harm human health / Thomas J. Grahame. Acting to avoid a world water catastrophe / William J. Cosgrove. Our nuclear future : the marriage of science and society / Tom Isaacs -- 7. Climate. Focus : paleoclimate natural variations and implications -- non-GHG influences on climate. Global climate in the industrial era / Richard Arnowitt. The role of water in the fate of carbon : implications for the climate system / Jan Veizer. Ocean circulations and climate / William Kininmonth. Nature -- not human activity -- rules the climate / S. Fred Singer. The climatic role of the sun : how, how much, and what does it mean? / Nir J. Shaviv. Twentieth century sources of methane in the atmosphere / Tom Quirk. Skill before sensitivity : towards Galilean validation for climate simulations / Kyle Swanson -- 8. Cosmic objects. Countermeasures to avoid asteroid and comet nucleus impacts on Earth : a summary of progress / Walter F. Huebner. Momentum enhancement from kinetic impactors and conventional explosives / James D. Walker and Sidney Chocron. Looking before we leap : an ongoing, quantitative investigation of asteroid and comet impact hazard mitigation / Catherine S. Plesko ... [and others]. Defense against asteroid-comet nucleus dangers -- a real task of today / Anatoly V. Zaitsev -- 9. Mitigation of terrorist acts. Focus : scientific contributions to biosecurity and mitigation of terrorism. Lessons from the 2009 swine flu pandemic, avian flu, and their contribution to the conquest of induced and natural pandemics / Richard L. Garwin. The ecology of international security / Charles D. Ferguson. Assessment of RDD event medical response, recovery, and mitigation in a world of one science / Annette Sobel. Defeating religious terrorism -- what will it take? / Pervez Hoodbhoy. Terrorism threats due to weapons of mass disturbance / Friedrich Steinhausler. Cell phones, texting, position reporting, and self-assembly in emergency response management / Robert V. Duncan -- 10. Special session : lectio magistralis. Why science is needed in everyday life / Ignazio La Russa -- 11. Climate. Focus : data, mathematical structures and predictions. Carbon dioxide, friend or foe. William Happer. Climate sensitivity : various approaches / Richard S. Lindzen. Climategate and the inquiries / Stephen McIntyre. Energy legislation in the USA / Richard Wilson -- 12. WFS general meeting. PMP reports -- debate and conclusions. Permanent monitoring panel on motivations for terrorism / Lord John Alderdice. 2010 progress report of the MCD-2/7 project and 2011 research project. East-Africa AIDS Research Centre at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), Entebbe Uganda / Franco M. Buonaguro. Mother and child health PMP : maternal and child mortality is a planetary emergency, report of 2010 activities / Nathalie Charpak, J. G. Ruiz and S. D. Leon-Mendoza. Permanent monitoring panel report on limits of development / Christopher D. Ellis. Pollution permanent monitoring panel -- 2010 annual report / Lorne G. Everett. Report of the energy permanent monitoring panel / William Fulkerson, J, Ongena and C. Difiglio. PMP report for cosmic objects / Walter F. Huebner. Annual report permanent monitoring panel on mitigation of terrorist acts / Alan Leigh Moore, Jr. Information security PMP report / Henning Wegener and Jody R. Westby -- 13. Seminar participants -- 14. Ettore Majorana Erice Science for Peace Prize.