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Nuclear Weapons and Moral Choices
Research Paper # 109248
Nuclear Weapons and Moral Choices
An exploration of the moral beliefs held by the scientists instrumental in developing the nuclear atomic bomb.
2,871 words (approx. 11.5 pages) |
10 sources |
APA | 2008
Paper Summary:
The paper presents the thesis that the physicists instrumental in the design and development of the nuclear atomic bomb held a level of pride in their accomplishment as well as regret for its potential for destruction, death and war. The paper describes the Manhattan Project and examines the personal moral standards of the scientists who developed it. The paper shows how regrets were certainly held by Bethe, Oppenheimer, Haber and other scientists and physicists sharing in the atomic energy and weaponry projects.Outline:
Statement of Thesis
Introduction
The Manhattan Project
Moral Responsibility of the Physicist
Hans Bethe
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
Summary and Conclusion
From the Paper:
"The work entitled: "Invisible: Atomic Bomb Efforts in the US, USSR and National Socialist Germany" relates that governments and physicists both came to realize "simultaneously...that their discoveries had military potential. If any nation could harness the energy of nuclear fission in an explosion, a super bomb would be possible." (Open Society Archives, 2007) The second World War erupted in Europe in 1939 and the publications concerning nuclear subject matter "disappeared from scientific journals and the race to the nuclear bomb was on." (Open Society Archives)"Sample of Sources Used:
- Byers, Nina (2002) Physicists and the 1945 Decision to Drop the Bomb. Physics Journal archives 13 Oct 2002. Online available at: http://arxiv.org/html/physics/0210058
- Bethe, Hans A. (1950) "The Hydrogen Bomb: II," Scientific American, April 1950.
- Hans Bethe (1906-2005) Arms Control Today - Arms Control Association. 2005 April. Online available at; http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2005_04/Bethe.asp
- Hans Bethe et al (1984) "Space-Based Ballistic-Missile Defense," Scientific American, October 1984.
- Horowitz, Jacob (1998) Building Bombs, Talking Peace: The Political Activity of Manhattan Project Physicists Before Hiroshima, A Thesis Presented to the Division of History and Social Sciences - Reed College. Online available at: http://seti.harvard.edu/grad/jhpdf/thesis.pdf
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Nuclear Weapons and Moral Choices (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 10, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Research-Paper-Nuclear-Weapons-and-Moral-Choices/109248
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"Nuclear Weapons and Moral Choices" 15 January 2012. Web. 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Research-Paper-Nuclear-Weapons-and-Moral-Choices/109248>
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