PHIL 20604 Modern Physics and Moral Responsibility, Spring 2019
Don Howard
University of Notre Dame

Course Materials Other links

Syllabus

How to Keep a Good Journal

Special Relativity (Helpful presentation of Lorentz transformations, length contraction, time dilation, etc.)

Course packet for Physics 20061
(Courtesy of Professor Michael Wiescher)

Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist --
Supplementary Slides

The Russell-Einstein Manifesto

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 1968

Pope Benedict's World Day of Peace Message 2006 "In Truth, Peace"
(see especially paragraphs 13 and 14)

Father John Siemes's Statement on the Bombing of Hiroshima

A Selective Nuclear Weapons Bibliography

Copenhagen, the Play

Immanuel Kant, "What Is Enlightenment?" (1784)

Immanuel Kant, "Was ist Aufklärung?" (1784)

Lectures by and about Hans Bethe

Merton's Social Norms of Science (1942)

 

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Pugwash Online

atomicarchive.com

Nuclearfiles.org

The Nuclear Weapon Archive

Academic Info
World War II - The Atomic Bomb

Radiochemistry Society

The Atomic Heritage Foundation

Nuke Your Own City Website

Thyroid Dose/Risk Calculator -- Atmostpheric Fallout

Cold War -- Hot Nukes

Johnston's Archive -- Nuclear Weapons

Catholic Update -- "What is 'Just War' Today?"

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops -- "The Harvest of Justice is Sown in Peace"

"Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War" Physics Today (December 2008)

Chernobyl -- Some Basic Facts