Moral and Political Consequences

Ken Young, W. Schilling
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This chapter examines the controversy's real or assumed moral and political aspects. Moral repugnance inflected the scientific judgments of Oppenheimer's General Advisory Committee, triggering discussion of the relative moral significance of thermonuclear bombing, the use of the atomic bomb, and the mass urban bombing campaigns of 1942–1945. More immediate concerns centered on the impact a decision to develop thermonuclear weapons might have on the pattern of international relations. Given a paucity of intelligence, the effects on the Soviet Union's own weapons program, and thereby on the United States' vulnerability, could only be guessed at. The chapter thus considers if the development of the Super would restore the status quo ante-1949 or lead to a thermonuclear arms race and ultimate stalemate—or even the end of the world.
道德和政治后果
本章考察了争议的真实或假想的道德和政治方面。道德上的反感影响了奥本海默总顾问委员会的科学判断,引发了关于热核轰炸、原子弹的使用以及1942-1945年大规模城市轰炸运动的相对道德意义的讨论。更直接的关切集中在发展热核武器的决定可能对国际关系格局产生的影响上。鉴于情报的缺乏,对苏联自己的武器计划的影响,从而对美国的脆弱性的影响,只能猜测。因此,本章将考虑超级导弹的发展是否会恢复1949年之前的状态,还是会导致热核军备竞赛和最终的僵局,甚至是世界末日。
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