PHIL 20604 Modern Physics and Moral Responsibility, Spring 2023 Don Howard University of Notre Dame
Syllabus
How to Keep a Good Journal
Course Intro Slides
The Institutes Slides
The Manhattan Project Slides
Copenhagen Slides
Fail Safe Slides
Schweber-Oppenheimer-Bethe Slides
Nuclear Weapons Today
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
Preparations on Tinian
Little Boy
Fat Man
"The Atom Strikes" (1948)
Truman's Announcement
1946 Bikini Atoll Test
Ivy Mike
Teller-Ulam Design
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
Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog
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
Johnston's Archive -- Nuclear Weapons
Just War Theory
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
Oppenheimer Interview
1983 Bishops' Pastoral on NuclearWeapons
Fighting for the Ethical Use of Technology
JSTARS
Bob Cheyenne Mountain