Scientists at war : the ethics of Cold War weapons research /

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 spark...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bridger, Sarah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Science > Social aspects.
Science > Moral and ethical aspects.
Military weapons > Technological innovations > Moral and ethical aspects.
Military research > United States > History > 20th century.
Military research > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Nuclear weapons > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Cold War.
Sciences > Aspect social.
Sciences > Aspect moral.
Armes de guerre > Innovations > Aspect moral.
Recherche militaire > Aspect moral > États-Unis.
Armes nucléaires > Aspect moral > États-Unis.
Guerre froide.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Business Ethics.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Military research
Military research > Moral and ethical aspects
Nuclear weapons > Moral and ethical aspects
Science > Moral and ethical aspects
Science > Social aspects
United States
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: the conscience of a physicist
  • The Sputnik opportunity
  • The moral case for a test ban
  • The science of non-nuclear war
  • Into the ethical hot pot
  • Disaster and disillusionment in Vietnam
  • Institutional reckonings at MIT
  • The New Left assault on neutrality
  • Collapse of the Sputnik order
  • A united front against Star Wars
  • Epilogue: science and ethics after the Cold War.

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