Present at the detonation
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Hans Bethe, former Director of the Theoretical Physics Division of the Los Alamos Scientific Lab, collaborated with Oppenheimer in developing the first atomic bomb. He shares his views regarding the French nuclear testing as well as offers a justification of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing from the point of view of a war freak.
Publication Name: New Perspectives Quarterly
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0893-7850
Year: 1995
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Unmediated man
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Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow sees more advantages in using the interactive multimedia than the conventional mass media. Barlow thinks that interactive multimedia make users become more aware of reality. For him, television makes people nothing more than passive observers.
Publication Name: New Perspectives Quarterly
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0893-7850
Year: 1995
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What is virtual community?
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Modern electronic communication leads to the creation of communities of computer users. Although members of these communities can freely exchange their views, computers remain an impersonal medium of communication.
Publication Name: New Perspectives Quarterly
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0893-7850
Year: 1995
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