Manhattan Project

Scientists must take into account the social and ethical consequences of their research, as the current debate around AI demonstrates, writes聽Rupen Savoulian.

Nuclear weapons need never have been built. Our world could have been free from the 鈥渇rozen tableau of terror鈥 of 9500 nuclear warheads capable of destroying the world 100 times over, as Peter Watson comprehensively shows in Fallout: Conspiracy, Cover-Up and the Deceitful Case for the Atom Bomb.听