In June of this year, a world-famous American scientist was chased out of the College de France by a group of young French scientists who were outraged at his contributions to the Vietnam War. Dr. Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist from Cal Tech, had come to Paris to lecture on the theory of elementary...
Archive - October 2022
Space exploration offers potentially the most profound and revolutionary new possibilities for the future of humanity. This was understood over 50 years ago by a handful of scientists, including John Desmond Bernal, the noted British crystallographer and Marxist philosopher of science. Bernal clearly realized that...
Advocates of any new military technology must sell their idea to a reluctant public which must bear its cost and consequence, an accountable Congress which must authorize its expense, and the scientists and technicians whose lives will be involved in its development. Laser fusion is such a technology. Before...
It is in Washington, rather than in Moscow, that scenarios are dreamed up for theatre wars; and it is in America that the alchemists of superkill, the clever technologists of "advantage" and of ultimate weapons, press forward the "politics of tomorrow" E.P. Thompson, "A Letter to America"
All of this country's nuclear weapons are developed at two huge laboratories—located at Livermore, California, and Los Alamos, New Mexico—which are operated by the University of California (UC) under contract from the Federal Department of Energy (DOE). For nearly five years these labs, along with the issues and...
On April 4, 1980, Elie McGee, a black security guard at the Naval Biosciences Laboratory in Oakland, California, was fired for refusing a direct order to enter the lab. His reason was that an organism being researched there was a hazard to his health. Seven months earlier he had almost died from an infection with the...
Preying on the fears of the military intentions of the USSR, carefully nurtured for the past 30 years, the U.S. government has made increased military spending a national priority. This call to "Rearm America" needs to be critically evaluated. It is time to ask: —Is the Soviet Threat all we have been led to believe...