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

Course Materials Other links

Syllabus

How to Keep a Good Journal

First Discussion Paper (Due September 23)

Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist --
Supplementary Slides

Living with the Bomb

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

Lectures by and about Hans Bethe

Merton's Social Norms of Science (1942)

How the Bombs Work

Kant: What Is Enlightenment?

Bethe Oral History Interview

Murrow Interview with Oppenheimer

Teller Oral History Interview

Einstein Speech on Nuclear Weapons 1946

Dr. Strangelove - Ending

Cost of US Nuclear Weapons

 

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Pugwash Online

atomicarchive.com

Nuclearfiles.org

The Nuclear Weapon Archive

Radiochemistry Society

The Atomic Heritage Foundation

Johnston's Archive -- Nuclear Weapons

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

Chernobyl -- Some Basic Facts

Alex Wellerstein's Nuclear Bomb Simulator

Thyroid Cancer Risk from Fallout - Calculator

Operation Ivy Mike

Declassified LLNL Nuclear Test Videos

Castle Bravo Test

Another Castle Bravo Film from DoD

Tsar Bomba

KTLA A-Bomb Coverage April 22, 1952

"Doomtown" Atomic Test 1957

YouTube Atomic Bomb Test Channel

Pugwash

Tom Lehrer - "We'll All Go Together When We Go"

Joan Baez - "Just a Little Rain"

HUAC

McCarthy

Eisenhower