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Scientists at War : The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research / Sarah Bridger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674736825
  • 9780674426085
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174/.96234 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations Used in Text -- Prologue: The Conscience of a Physicist -- 1. The Sputnik Opportunity -- 2. The Moral Case for a Test Ban -- 3. The Science of Nonnuclear War -- 4. Into the Ethical Hot Pot -- 5. Disaster and Disillusionment in Vietnam -- 6. Institutional Reckonings at MIT -- 7. The New Left Assault on Neutrality -- 8. Collapse of the Sputnik Order -- 9. A United Front against Star Wars -- Epilogue: Science and Ethics after the Cold War -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Sarah Bridger examines the ethical debates that tested the U.S. scientific community during the Cold War, and scientists' contributions to military technologies and strategic policymaking, from the dawning atomic age through the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) in the 1980s, which sparked cross-generational opposition among scientists.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations Used in Text -- Prologue: The Conscience of a Physicist -- 1. The Sputnik Opportunity -- 2. The Moral Case for a Test Ban -- 3. The Science of Nonnuclear War -- 4. Into the Ethical Hot Pot -- 5. Disaster and Disillusionment in Vietnam -- 6. Institutional Reckonings at MIT -- 7. The New Left Assault on Neutrality -- 8. Collapse of the Sputnik Order -- 9. A United Front against Star Wars -- Epilogue: Science and Ethics after the Cold War -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Sarah Bridger examines the ethical debates that tested the U.S. scientific community during the Cold War, and scientists' contributions to military technologies and strategic policymaking, from the dawning atomic age through the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) in the 1980s, which sparked cross-generational opposition among scientists.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)