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Five key staffers of the White House Office of the Management and Budget have resigned despite ongoing budget debates. The staffers are deputy associate director Joseph Hezir, chief of nuclear energy Thomas Palmieri, OMB overseas chief Norine Noonan, budget examiners Nancy Milton and Katherin Yuracko.

Karl A. Erb, Lee Schroeder, J. Douglas Beacon and Cynthia Ann Arnold-Mckenna were appointed to the Office of Science and Technology Policy. At the National Science Foundation, Marcel Bardon and William Harris were appointed as assistant directors while Dennis Barnes was chosen as new president of the Southeastern Universities Research Association.

The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) project faces termination due to the Congressional decision to halt funding beginning FY 1993. Funding for the SSC faces further opposition in the Senate, where 37 Senators voted against it in 1991.

Fiscal year 1992 funding authorizations for research were established by a process tainted by the usual pork barrel politics. The examples of the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) and the space station are cited to demonstrate the politics underlying the funding process.

British engineer Frank Whittle and German physicist Hans J.P. von Ohain share the 1991 Draper Prize for their simultaneous, independent development of turbojet engine technology during World War II.

The National Science Board has stepped back from NSF's decision not to fund MIT's Bitter Lab by authorizing an $18 million outlay. A further $5 million is budgeted to allow Bitter Lab to participate in the development of a 45 tesla hybrid dc magnet.

Physicist Will Harper is the new head of the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Research. His background includes basic and defense-related research, and significant contributions to the development of new technologies.

Author(s): Irwin Goodwin Washington [illus. 1] On his first visit to Europe as president, George W. Bush will tell European leaders this week that he will not accept mandatory limits [...]

Author(s): Irwin Goodwin Washington [illus. 1] The announcement by President George W. Bush that he plans to abandon the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty has been met with concern from [...]

Author(s): Irwin Goodwin Washington Members of the Congress are backing scientists in their demands for more research funding for 2002 than has been proposed by President George W. Bush -- [...]

Author(s): Irwin Goodwin Washington President George W. Bush has surprised scientists with the appointment of his first main adviser on science and technology. [illus. 1] Bush last week named Floyd [...]

Author(s): Irwin Goodwin Washington [illus. 2] The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) emerged as the sole winner among federal science agencies in President George W. Bush's first budget request [...]

Author(s): Irwin Goodwin Washington [illus. 1] An arbitrator has ruled that the government should pay only $4 million towards cost overruns encountered by the contractor that built a huge radiotelescope [...]

Author(s): Irwin Goodwin Washington Spending on science and technology in the United States should be doubled in the name of national security, says a report by a high-powered bipartisan panel. [...]

Author(s): Irwin Goodwin Washington Bill Richardson, the US energy secretary in Bill Clinton's administration, spent his last two days in office trying to restore the morale and motivation of thousands [...]

Author(s): Irwin Goodwin Washington Lately, international arms control has looked like a cause fast falling out of fashion. Memories of the cold war are fading, the population thinks about nuclear [...]

Author(s): Irwin Goodwin Washington George W. Bush's choice of defence secretary shows that his new administration aims to give the United States a missile defence shield -- confirming the fears [...]

Bill Richardson, US Energy Secretary, has presented Congress with his recommendations for the establishment of an agency to control the nuclear weapons program. The plan has not received a favourable reaction.

Although the US and United Nations (UN) are in dispute as to whether the US should pay 22% or 25% of the UN's costs, arrears of $225 million will be paid by December 1999. The issue of whether the US rejoins the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is undecided.