Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole point is that to ask a conservative such as Evans to investigate causes and effects (or the practicality of applying conservative theses) is to ask him to adopt the very ethic he is trying to shirk: the conservative is not a scientist but, rather, harks back to a pre-scientific tradition...
...layman is hampered by ignorance, the researcher is truly strung by elaborate checking , loyalty oaths, and clear procedures. Piel deplores "the promotion of conform and notes: "Everyone who freedom and science must be concerned at the present authoritan drift in our culture." Undeniably, scientific effort is impaired. The individual scientist is regarded as a natural resource, a weapon to "give the modern state its military power. This is not healthy. Furthermost there is excessive emphasis on technology and applied science, with responding neglect of pure science...
...popular scientific education is "made difficult by the enormous mushrooming of knowledge in recent years (a problem for the scientist as well as the citizen). It is increasingly hard for a specialist to keep informed of advances in his field; in medicine, for example, the total body of known information in any given field is presently doubling every twenty years. But hard as the task may be, information must be spread and assimilated, by scientist and non-scientist alike...
...Kennedy recognizes, other scientists do want to test. Nevertheless, the Manhattan project and the great postwar evaluation of the atomic scientist's moral responsibility suggest there are socially concerned researchers who devoted years of their creative lives to the atomic bomb and other nuclear projects, but who prayed against the use and flatly opposed testing and further development of their inventions. It is time for the rest of America's scientists to realize that the peace race will not be a spectator sport, and to make some of the sacrifices Kennedy so often requests...
...detonator. Modern nuclear weapons get most of their power from comparatively plentiful fusion materials, such as lithium and deuterium (heavy hydrogen). The nation that makes or acquires a few plutonium detonators can upgrade them without much difficulty into city-busting H-bombs. "The cost of deuterium," says one British scientist, "is about like good champagne...