Artsimovich talks about controlled‐fusion research

JUN 01, 1969

Which approach to fusion looks best? A leading member of the Soviet Academy, in conversations with James L. Tuck and Gloria B. Lubkin, evaluated progress in the US and USSR and offered his own list of priorities for fusion research.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3035621

James L. Tuck

Gloria B. Lubkin

LEV ARTSIMOVICH is secretary of the physics–mathematics section of the USSR Academy of Sciences, chairman of its council on plasma physics and directs the plasma‐physics division of the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow. He is also involved in construction of the great 6‐meter optical telescope, which will probably be the world’s largest when completed.

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James L. Tuck, Los Alamos.

Gloria B. Lubkin, PHYSICS TODAY.

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