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...referendum would prohibit the production or research of nuclear weapons within the city limits. Exceptions include basic research the primary purpose of which is not nuclear weapons production...
Students in Adams, Old Quincy, Old Leverett, Winthrop and Claverly Hall are being checked for compliance with rules which prohibit using tape or creating any holes in the wall...
...they try to decide what kinds of knowledge are too dangerous to acquire. Opponents will argue that nuclear weapons are a special case because of their awesome power of destruction. Yet claims of this kind hardly justify the Act before us. Its provisions would go so far as to prohibit research to discover better safety mechanisms for avoiding nuclear accidents, research to improve capabilities for defense that could reduce the temptation to resort to preemptive nuclear striken, and research that might help prevent other nations from gaining a weapons superiority that could have critical destabilizing effects...
...contributions that free inquiry can make to human advancement, we have united over many years to allow research to go forward and not to deny the possibility of progress altogether. Even in the face of strong protest and warnings of grave consequences to follow, we have chosen not to prohibit inquiry but to work through democratic procedures to enact laws that prevent knowledge from being used in undesirable ways. This tradition has been vital to our universities and has served our society well through the years...
...person needs to do is real the text of the measure to conclude that the opponents assertions as to possibly unconstitutional applications of this law are pure fantasy. Section 6 specifically provides as follows: "in this Act shall be continued to prohibit or regulate...basic research the primary purpose of which is to work toward the development of nuclear weapons." Thus, the Act explicitly protects all research other than that directed toward the building of nuclear weapons. In the face of such clear language in the proposed law, how anyone can imagine that a person's freedom of explosion would...