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Other physicists, agreeing with Rabi, take the view that the military-scientific partnership was not only dangerous to the country but detrimental to the quality of American science as well. Philip Morrison, celebrated for his teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, carried the container of plutonium in his hands from Los Alamos to the Trinity test site and, like Agnew, was on Tinian the days of the bombings. Now he spends a good part of his intellectual life arguing for disarmament. Morrison also felt that the Bomb was needed to end the war. Looking back today, however, he says...
After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Morrison's main concern was "how to get the Bomb into the peace." But once World War II was over, American scientists were inevitably associated in the public mind with war. Hiroshima had entirely changed the popular image of the unworldly professor; he had proved what he could do. By the end of the 1940s, the Soviets had their own atomic weapon, and by 1953, less than a year after the U.S., they tested their first hydrogen bomb. Once the arms race was a fact, the U.S. seemed to need its physicists as saviors and protectors...
...even count how many gunshots I heard, there were over 20 ... there were people screaming, and they made us get behind the desk." ASHLEY MORRISON, student at Minnesota's Red Lake Senior High School, where 15-year-old Jeff Weise killed 10 people and wounded 12 in the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. since the 1999 Columbine killings...
Saturday, March 19. Van Morrison. 7 p.m. Orpheum Theater. $68.50-150. Tickets available from Ticketmaster...
...it’s easy to see why it’s still around. The place just smells like a pub, a sublime combination of wood, beer, and stew. Those who take a seat at the bar join the company of such serious thinkers and major drinkers as Van Morrison and G-Love and Special Sauce. Tread softly if the conversation turns to politics, though: “the Plough and Stars” was the standard of the Irish Marxists and secessionists not too long ago. Soft lantern lighting creates a cheerful, cozy ambience around the all-wood...