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Exploration of outer space may enable man to make an "end run" around the obstacles to world peace by channeling aggression outward, Eugene R. Rochow, professor of Chemistry, told the Harvard-Radcliffe World Federalists last night...
Noting that public approval greets every new expenditure for the conquest of space, Rochow asked: "Aren't we actually witnessing a phenomenon which has interest, enthusiasm, which can absorb energies and masculine drive, and which could make the question of war passe...
...change the attitudes of this country unless you change its economic incentives," Rochow declared. Because of its costliness, space travel would allow our "war economy" to remain prosperous without manufacturing armaments, he contended...
Contrary to popular opinion, an agreement to ban atomic testing might not be a "first step towards disarmament," Rochow asserted. Scientists can determine what a weapon will do through "sub-critical experiments" which do not require detonation. Since these experiments use up less fissionable material, countries such as China, with little plutonium, benefit from "testing" in this...
Eugene G. Rochow, professor of Chemistry, will be the fourth lecturer. He will analyze "The Great Nitrogen Shortage...