Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons ResearchHarvard University Press, 6 апр. 2015 г. - Всего страниц: 362 Scientists at War examines the ethical debates that severely tested the American scientific community during the Cold War. Sarah Bridger highlights the contributions of scientists to military technologies and strategic policymaking, from the dawning atomic age in the 1940s through the Strategic Defense Initiative (“Star Wars”) in the 1980s, which sparked a cross-generational opposition among scientists. |
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The Sputnik Opportunity | |
The Moral Case for a Test | |
The Science of Nonnuclear | |
Into the Ethical Hot | |
Disaster and Disillusionment in Vietnam | |
Institutional Reckonings at | |
The New Left Assault on Neutrality | |
Collapse of the Sputnik Order | |
A United Front against Star Wars | |
Science and Ethics after the Cold | |
Acknowledgments | |