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Physics for Future Presidents The Science Behind the Headlines

Richard A. Muller

Learn the science behind the headlines―the tools of terrorists, the dangers of nuclear power, and the reality of global warming. We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times. As citizens who will elect future presidents of the most powerful and influential country in...

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It was mentioned as a book explaining the science needed for world leaders to make decisions, and President Clinton said he'd read it after leaving the White House.

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Was it Professor Mueller wrote that, Physics for President?

— Episode: Decoding Science and Politics with Bill...

Episode: Decoding Science and Politics with Bill Clinton

It was mentioned as a book explaining the science needed for world leaders to make decisions, and President Clinton said he'd read it after leaving the White House.

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Was it Professor Mueller wrote that, Physics for President?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Physics for Future Presidents.

He was... he did something that politicians are terrified to do. He said, you know, I was one of the global climate change skeptics and I've looked at the data and the other guys were right. This is real.

Now we can argue about what the best way to deal with it is, but it is real. There's no point in denying it anymore.

Physics for future presidents, I think was the title.

Episode: Decoding Science and Politics with Bill Clinton

It was mentioned as a book that explains the science needed for world leaders to make decisions, and the president had read it after leaving office.

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Was it Professor Mueller wrote that, Physics for President?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Physics for Future Presidents.

He's the guy who wrote the book that President Clinton mentioned, physics for future presidents, I think was the title.

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