Ethical Issues Associated with Scientific and Technological Research for the Military. Carl Mitcham , Philip SiekevitzAtomic Energy for Military Purposes: The Official Report on the Development of the Atomic Bomb under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1940-1945. Henry DeWolf SmythPreventing a Biological Arms Race. Susan Wright

Isis ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 362-364
Author(s):  
Barton C. Hacker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Atomic Bomb ◽  
The United States ◽  
Arms Race ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Technological Research ◽  
Official Report ◽  
States Government ◽  
The Military

Radiological weapons and radioactive waste in the United States: insiders' and outsiders' views, 1941–55

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-227
Author(s):  
Adri De La Bruheze
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Atomic Bomb ◽  
Atomic Energy Commission ◽  
Fission Products ◽  
Manhattan Project ◽  
The United States ◽  
Arms Race ◽  
Nuclear Arms Race ◽  
The Military ◽  
Nuclear Arms

The Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb, the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the post-war nuclear arms race with fission and fusion bombs have been the subject of many discussions and historical studies. In fact, these subjects, and the way in which they were generally dealt with, have led to retrospective distortion with respect to the spectrum of ‘atomic’ weapons discussed and explored during the wartime Manhattan Project and immediately after the Second World War. Specifically, it has made observers of the cold war's early nuclear arms race overlook the fact that the military use of radioactive reactor fission products in so-called radiological warfare weapons, was a very real possibility at the time, both for the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the military, as well as for relative outsiders and the general public. Thus, for many observers it came as something of a surprise when the United States in 1976 introduced radiological weapons as an issue of UN arms control negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union.

scholarly journals Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in United States Government Courses

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (01) ◽  
pp. 127-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Champney ◽  
Paul Edleman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Science Majors ◽  
Student Knowledge ◽  
States Government ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Males And Females

AbstractThis study employs the Solomon Four-Group Design to measure student knowledge of the United States government and student knowledge of current events at the beginning of a U.S. government course and at the end. In both areas, knowledge improves significantly. Regarding knowledge of the U.S. government, both males and females improve at similar rates, those with higher and lower GPAs improve at similar rates, and political science majors improve at similar rates to non-majors. Regarding current events, males and females improve at similar rates. However, those with higher GPAs and political science majors improve more than others.

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