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...ethics of scientific research are a problem, Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, said, because it is unclear to whom scientists are accountable for their work...
...link between the tactical weapons and the strategic weapons which makes the total nuclear arsenal so unstable and dangerous and demands that military solutions not be easily drifted into by the super powers as they flex their muscles in southwest Asia and the Middle East. Everett Mendelsohn Professor of the History of Science
...statement on the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, SALT II (Crimson, February 21), Professor Everett I. Mendelsohn unfortunately gets many things quite wrong. No statement of his, however, is more misleading than the one in which he asserts that at present the United States holds 30,000 nuclear warheads and the Soviet Union...
Since he is speaking in the context of SALT II, I must assume he is speaking of strategic missiles. Unless Professor Mendelsohn has access to private sources of information unavailable even to the Secretary of Defense, his figures are wide off the mark. According to Mr. Harold Brown's current defense posture statement, the United States now has 9200 warheads and the Soviet Union...
Stressing that a conventional war in the Middle East could quickly escalate into nuclear conflict, Mendelsohn said, "I for one reject the arrogance of the potential call for the destruction of the world as we know it for temporal political or military ends...