Nuclear Weapons and Scientific Responsibility Unknown - 1987

1987 blue hardcover w white DJ, ex-library, in very good condition; some wear to covers, some stamps and writing, good binding. US media mail for shipping. Foreign shipping is possible through biblio.com and their International consolidated shipping program. Several years ago when this work first appeared, it had become apparent that scientists, who play such a key role in the nuclear enterprise, needed to be alerted to the many questions of conscience and legality that were inextricably interlinked with their work. These questions lay at the heart of the nuclear weapons problem, for whatever the political and military leaders might ordain, the manufacture of such weapons was a plain impossibility without the active assistance of the scientific profession. Yet no substantive work on this topic had until then been attempted. Such a work appeared at that time to be an urgent and important need. If the problem was then acute and serious, it is even more so now. The power of nuclear science has grown and… Leer más