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Regarding Dr. Frederick Seitz's "Call to Arms" [TIME, April...
...Physicist Seitz wants to prostitute his scientific talents inventing weapons of destruction, that is an affair of his own conscience and he should be free to do so, but he is guilty of the very thing he most decries when he attempts to dictate to the consciences of his colleagues...
...efforts to divert the scientific minds of this country towards ever-increasing preoccupation with means of destruction, Dr. Seitz unwittingly joins his militaristic counterparts in the Kremlin in spreading the infection now ravishing the body of our tottering civilization...
...evident," says Seitz, "that an appreciable component of Congress is not aware of the conditions which must be met if we are to obtain the most from our scientific fraternity. For example, the continued partisan attacks on the top administration of the Atomic Energy Commission, on issues that appear absurd to most scientists, has probably done as much to impede the progress of that organization as could a number of well-placed Russian agents." What is needed, says Physicist Seitz, is a hard-hitting, imaginative agency like the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development...
...Delay. What is needed most of all among both scientists and public is a sense of desperate urgency like that which prevailed in wartime. "There is a general complacency in the public mind," Seitz says, "which arises from the fact that life in our land is exceedingly pleasant. It may prove necessary to contract our standard of living if we undertake military preparedness with anything like the serious ness that is prevalent in Russia." Dr. Seitz hopes that the public and his colleagues may both awake in time. American public opinion is due for an "abrupt change some time...