Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...January, 1951, just after President Truman had issued his directive to determine the technical feasibility of a thermonuclear weapon, I was appointed to the Atomic Energy Commission. I recall that Professor Rabi and some of his confreres on the General Advisory Council were profoundly wrong at that time, both in their scientific estimates about the feasibility and practicability of the new weapon. It turned out later that the Soviet Union was no more than six months behind us in nuclear technology. Their thermonuclear or H-bomb test was made, in fact, only about six months after ours...
...aware of Professor Rabi's strongly emotional opposition, and that of a segment of the scientific fraternity, to the resumption of nuclear tests. In my judgment Professor Rabi and his confreres are wrong again. Their technical qualifications as nuclear physicists do not guarantee the validity of their views on public policy...
...report drafted by a panel of educators including Bundy and issued last Sunday by President Eisenhower's Advisory Committee charged that governmental agencies and universities are responsible for '-an artificial and fundamentally wrong division between teaching and research." The main conclusion of the report stated, "Research, learning, and teaching are deeply connected processes which should be kept together wherever possible...
...Three members of the U.S. Pugwash Committee have declared their intention to propose such a change, because "Since Mr. Eaton has continued to play an active and controversial role in political affairs, the scientists have felt that his continuing support of their conference may place them in the wrong light." Eaton was recently awarded the Lenin Peace Prize...
Harvard is not plagued by this "wrong division" very much as the University, unlike most others, does not accept grants for secret projects, according to Don K. Price, Dean of the School of Public Administration. Price is collaborating on a report to President Pusey on the role of federal aid to the University...