I. Laser Fusion -- U.S. Inertial Confinement Fusion Program Experiments: Results and Implications -- Status of Inertial Confinement Fusion Research at Los Alamos National Laboratory -- High Density Compression of Hollow-Shell Target by GEKKO XII and Laser Fusion Research at ILE Osaka University -- Status of Experimental Investigations of ICF and X-Ray Lasers in SINPC -- Investigations into X-ray Damage to the First Wall of the Inertial Confinement Fusion Laboratory Microfusion Facility -- Leading Role of Laser Fusion and its Advances by Volume Ignition and by Pulsationfree Direct Drive -- Laser Induced Transitions in Muon Catalyzed Fusion -- II. Laser Development -- Light Ion Beam Drivers for Inertial Confinement Fusion -- Development of High Power KrF Laser for ICF Laser Driver and Laser Interaction Experiments -- The Gamma-Ray Laser - Status and Issues in 1989 -- Modelling of Intense Line Radiation From Laser-Produced Plasmas -- Observation of Gain on XUV Transitions in Ne-Like and Li-Like Ions -- Nuclear-Driven Solid-State Lasers for Inertial Confinement Fusion -- Lasing Without Inversion -- III. Laser-Plasma Instabilities -- Ion Acoustic Parametric Decay Instabilities in Laser-Plasma Interactions -- Spectral and Temporal Properties of l?0 2?0 and 3/2?0 Emission from Laser-Produced Plasmas -- A Survey of Raman Spectra from Laser-Produced Plasmas -- Experimental Study of Beam-Plasma Instabilities in Long Scalelength Laser Produced Plasmas -- Analysis of 2? and 3?/2 Spectra from Plasmas Produced by Irradiation of Thin Foil Targets -- Nonstationary Stimulated Brillouin Backscattering in Inhomogeneous Density Profiles -- Turbulence in Very-High Mach Number Laser-Accelerated Material -- IV. Interaction Properties -- Electron Motion in Plasma Irradjated by Strong Laser Light -- Early-Time "Shine-Through" in Laser Irradiated Targets -- Laser Induced Breakdown and High Voltage Induced Vacuum Breakdown on Metal Surfaces -- New Basic Theory From Laser-Plasma Double Layers: Generalization to Degenerate Electrons and Nuclei -- Caviton Generation with Two-Temperature Equation-of-State Effects in Laser Produced Plasmas -- Radiation Damage in Single Crystal CsI(T1) and Polycrystal CsI -- Active Beam-Control and Active Laser-Diagnostic of Intense Pulsed Ion Sources -- Saturable Magnetics for Laser and Plasma Interactions -- Nuclear Driven UV Fluorescence for Stimulation of the Atomic Iodine Laser -- A Highly Reflecting Microwave Plasma Mirror -- V. Laser Acceleration and Microwaves -- Particle Acceleration with the Axial Electric Field of a TEM10 Mode Laser Beam -- Acceleration of Electrons to TeV Energy by Lasers in Vacuum -- A Review of Back Lighted Thyratron Physics and Applications -- Two-Dimensional Calculation of Sequential Electron Layer Formation by Crossed Microwave Beams in Air at Low Pressure -- Shock Wave Decay and Spallation in Laser-Matter Interaction -- VI. ICF Calculations and Beam Fusion -- High-Gain Direct-Drive Target Design for ICF -- Adiabatic Compression of Fuel in ICF Target -- X-Ray Conversion in High Gain Radiation Drive ICF -- Implosion Characteristics of Radiation-Driven High Gain Laser Fusion -- Fission-Induced Inertial Confinement Hot Fusion and Cold Fusion With Electrolysis -- Ion Beam-Plasma Interaction for Particle Driven Fusion -- Tight Focusing of Proton Beam and its Interaction with Targets -- Theoretical Analysis of Charge Neutralization of the Intense Light Ion Beam -- An Implicit Fluid-Particle Model for Ion Beam-Plasma Interactions -- Attendees -- Author Index.