By Herbert N. Foerstel
ISBN-10: 0313362343
ISBN-13: 9780313362347
Poisonous Mix?: A guide of technology and Politics takes a subject matter a great deal within the middle of public debate within the final decade and locations it in a revealing old context. It follows the customarily contentious dating of technology and politics from the FDR period to the present Obama management, highlighting the numerous hugely charged moments while the 2 have been in conflict.Toxic combine? levels around the significant components of clinical inquiry with public coverage implications, together with atomic strength, house technology, public wellbeing and fitness, stem cells, sexual replica, environmental technological know-how, international warming, and evolution, to envision very important occasions the place political imperatives and medical study have been at odds. furthermore, the booklet seems at one other vital zone the place politics and technology are at pass reasons; immigration—as a lot of our so much comprehensive measure earners are overseas born and are not able to stick and paintings within the usa. a last bankruptcy analyzes the makes an attempt via the early Obama management to construct public coverage that embraces technological know-how instead of manipulates it.
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Indeed, in May 1954, an American B-2 was intercepted and attacked by Soviet fighters. The severely damaged bomber limped back to its base, but Eisenhower’s program of spy flights was in jeopardy. He needed to find a safer, more-effective way to conduct surveillance. Eisenhower immediately appointed a secret committee, headed by MIT president James Killian. The top-secret Killian Report, issued in early 1955, concluded that science could provide an alternative to the risky B-2 flights: spy satellites.
Everyone assumed that the three-judge appeals panel was going to rule in favor of the 15 16 TOXIC MIX? magazine, forcing the government to appeal to the Supreme Court. 50 Just what was the legal precedent, if any, established by the Progressive case? Morland had intended to challenge the constitutionality of the Atomic Energy Act’s sweeping secrecy provisions, but when the government dropped its case against The Progressive, the judgment became “moot,” meaning no binding precedent could be taken from the trial.
Quoted in Howard Morland, “The H-Bomb Secret,” The Progressive, November 1979, 17. 38. Irwin Knoll, “Born Secret,” The Progressive, May 1979, 17. 39. Gerard Piel, “Idi Amin and the H-Bomb,” The Progressive, May 1979, 17. 40. Gerard Piel, “Concerning H-Bomb Reactions,” Scientific American, May 1950, 26. 41. ” The Progressive, November 1979, 3. 42. Howard Morland, interview by Herbert N. Foerstel, April 10, 1997, Banned in the Media: A Reference Guide to Censorship in the Press, Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and the Internet (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998).
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