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Understanding and Preventing Nuclear War: The Expanding Role of the Scientific Community
Understanding and Preventing Nuclear War: The Expanding Role of the Scientific Community
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National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. Understanding and Preventing Nuclear War: The Expanding Role of the Scientific Community DAVID A
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. 1ne crux or my presentation 1S that the circumstances surrounding nuclear war call for a new level of commitment by the scientific community to reduce the risk of nuclear war.
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The present meeting is an activity of the National Academy of Sciences, which in 1980 established the Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) , chaired for several years by Marvin Goldberger and now headed by Wolfgang Panofsky, both distinguished physicists.
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It is deeply engaged in national science policy and is an important articulator of relationships between the scientific community and the government, a useful link between that community and the society at large, and in recent years a very active participant in the arms control and national security fields. In 1981, AAAS established the Committee on Science, Arms Control and National Security to encourage its own members to become more informed on these matters and more deeply involved in them and, also, to provide links between the scientific community and the policy community.
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The most recent one centered on crisis prevention and nuclear risk reduction. This year, for the first time, AAAS will have a highly visible and very-high-quality meeting that will be the first of an annual series of national colloquia on avoiding nuclear war, bringing together the scientific and scholarly communities with a wide cross-section of national leaders and the public at large.
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The crisis prevention approach deserves mention here. In essence, it is an antidote to complacency in the spirit of science: raising questions, challenging assumptions in seeking ways to reduce the risk of the use of nuclear weapons, looking at factors that influence the use of these weapons.
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The upgrading of the Hotline is a useful step in that direction. Another idea of crisis prevention is to reach agreements that deal effectively with situations that are predictably sensitive and potentially explosive; perhaps the best case in point involves the rules of sea agreement between the U.S.
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Until that fundamental change in the relationship occurs, can we alter the circumstances surrounding the likelihood of use of nuclear weapons? We in the scientific community are beginning to give the problem the attention it deserves.
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This will require cooperative engagement over a wide range of scientific activity and will necessitate overcoming some of our own internal barriers within the scientific community. There is one final feature about the scientific community that is worth bearing in mind.
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1984. Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear War: A Source Book for Health Professionals (Physicians for Social Responsibility)
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Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. National Research Council.
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