A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology

Notes

1. Nazi Germany’s engineers had produced ballistic missiles and British mathematicians had broken secure German ciphers, but in the years immediately after the Second World War these were either still too foreign or still too secret to represent celebrated genius.

2. See: http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/radioactivity.html (accessed October 2006).

3. See: http://www.ead.anl.gov/pub/doc/natural-decay-series.pdf#search=_radium_decay_thorium_uranium_ (accessed October 2006).

4. See: http://www.pugwash.org/about/manifesto.htm (accessed October 2006).

5. See: http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/farewell.htm (accessed October 2006).

6. Howard Morland provides personal insight into the Progressive legal case in his paper (Morland 2003) available from the Federation of American Scientists. http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/morland.html (accessed October 2006).

7. The concept of a Just War has been debated for centuries. Prominent thinkers include St. Augustine (354–430 CE), author of The City of God, and St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–74 CE), author of Summa theologica.

8. Nearly all commercial nuclear power plants employ neutrons that have been slowed from their initial fast speeds, when emitted by the fission process, to levels natural for the temperature of the reactor core. The process of slowing down is known as “moderation” (Nuttall 2005, §I.3.1).

9. North Korea claims to have tested a nuclear weapon on 9 October 2006. Seismic data indicate that some form of event occurred. See: ...