In article , Martin Brown writes:
Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Thu, 6 May 2010 07:01:15 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc wrote:

Of course, also, this sort of thing is anti-democratic. If a
scientific priesthood could protect us from being blown up in a
nuclear war started by politicians, it would be a good thing. But

Well, it isn't clear if the world is or is not better off for Stalin
having the bomb. We can't do an experiment and see. The question is
inherently non-scientific, so there is no reason to think that
scientists should make a better (or worse) decision when a question like
it arises.

Andrei Sakharov for instance who later became a peace activist was
instrumental in their H-bomb design and later in cosmology.

According to Kip Thorne, some of the statements/questions from
Sakharov in the cosmology area gave Western physicists a strong
hint as to what areas of H-bomb design he was looking into at
the time.

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