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March 4, Anniversary Edition: Scientists, Students, and Society

March 4, Anniversary Edition: Scientists, Students, and Society

Allen, Jonathan
Gottfried, Kurt

Paperback

PhilosophyTechnology & EngineeringGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 026253665X
ISBN13: 9780262536653
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Feb 19 2019
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Scientists debate the role of scientific research in the military-industrial complex and consider the complicity of academic science in American wars.

On March 4, 1969, MIT faculty and students joined together for an extraordinary day of protest. Growing out of the MIT community's anguish over the Vietnam War and concern over the perceived complicity of academic science with the American war machine, the events of March 4 and the days following were a positive protest--a forum not only for addressing political and moral priorities but also for mapping out a course of action. Soon afterward, some of the participants founded the Union of Concerned Scientists. This book documents the March 4 protest with transcripts of talks and panel discussions. Speakers included Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Lionel Trilling, and Nobel Laureate George Wald, whose memorable speech, A Generation in Search of a Future, was widely circulated. Topics of discussion ranged from general considerations of the intellectuals' political responsibility to specific comments on the Vietnam War and nuclear disarmament.

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