Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is not to say that academicians have taken refuge in philosophy. Quite the opposite; the concern for theory sparked by the Vietnam quandary has also given rise to the activist intellectual...
...issues of morality in Vietnam have infringed upon the other disciplines too. Physical science is exemplary of an area where moral issues have imposed themselves upon unsuspecting individuals...
Scientists are deeply involved in the war effort. Since World War II, their contributions to military science have not been viewed in a moral sense; but Vietnam has challenged that. Scientists have become increasingly perplexed by the growing gap between personal morality and public service...
...January, George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, resigned from a Pentagon project staff working on the planned anti-personnel barrier between North and South Vietnam. Kistiakowsky, designer of the explo- sive trigger of the atom bomb, would not speak of his resignation in any but a philosophical fashion...
This reasoning may place part of the responsibility for the war in Vietnam upon the shoulders of political scientists. But in dealing with current issues, just what is the responsibility of intellectuals in general and political scientists in particular...