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Presents a calendar of events pertaining to the physical sciences from September 1990 to May of 1993. Meetings of scientific societies; International scientific conferences; Meetings of scientific bureaus; Workshops and lectures.

Presents a calendar of events for the years 1990-91 concerning the physics community. Annual meeting of scientific societies; Courses being offered; International conferences; Lectures and symposiums.

Reports on the three-day Soviet-American summit conference, which included scientific studies, held at Camp David and in Washington in June. Collaborative studies agreements; Gorbachev's interest in science; Gorbachev's comments in San Francisco on science and United States-Soviet scientific collaboration.

Focuses on issues posed by the jailing of physicists Yuri Orlov and computer scientist Anatoly Shcharansky in connection to the scientific exchange between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Opposition toward cooperation; Efforts to encourage scientific cooperation.

Summarizes efforts by the American Physical Society (APS) to build ties to the newly revived Physical Society of the Soviet Union. Reciprocal membership agreement; Annual international school of physics; Funds provided by UNESCO.

Reports that the Royal Society of London announced that because of China's political crackdown in June, it was terminating scientific collaboration with Chinese government bodies.

Reports that an American team of physicists led by Alan D. Krisch will cooperate with a team of Soviet scientists on the first major experiment on the UNK accelerator. Facility which is being built at the Institute for High Energy Physics at Protvino, in the Soviet Union; Construction of the accelerator; High Energy Spin Physics Symposium; NEPTUNE-A experiment.

Announces that the Optical Society of America and the American Institute of Physics will publish 'Atmospheric Optics,' the English translation of the Soviet journal 'Optika Atmospherii.' Topics covered in the journal; Ordering information.

Discusses a two year agreement signed by the National Academy of Sciences to have scientific cooperation with the Soviet Academy of Sciences. NAS President Frank Press who was eager to resume exchanges with the USSR; Symposia on radioastronomy, partial differential equations and communication with extraterrestrials.

Editorial. Discusses the effects of the U.S. efforts to control the interchange of scientific and technical information with foreign nationals. Objective of the U.S. in strengthening export controls; Consequence of the controls on U.S. nationals; Source of threats to science in the U.S. inherent in the export controls.