The stewardship of conscience
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Some observers have expressed reservations about collaboration between nuclear weapons laboratories and university researchers in the US. They do not accept that the research undertaken within this collaboration will not support the development of nuclear weapons in itself, but will simply help the weapons laboratories to ensure that existing weapons are safe. Scientists emphasize that they are undertaking unclassified work only in basic physics. However, the goal of that work is to form the basis for as complete a simulation of nuclear weapons as can be achieved in the absence of testing.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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Genetic revolution overdue at the USDA: Agricultural research is being neglected by the US federal government, despite its clear relevance to economic prosperity, social development and environmental stewardship
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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has a history of achievement that demands respect, but the structure of its $1.5 billion annual research programme bears little recognition for the genetic revolution. Its support for basic research is flat and its grants are too small. The USDA has a wide empire of special interests and agricultural research needs to be fenced off from those interests.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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