Political significance

Beyond its social and political significance, as a new tool for genetic research x-ray mutagenesis also had several important practical implications... 

Pauling joined a discussion group of concerned professors and students in Pasadena and was among the first to understand that the new bomb also meant a changed role for scientists. The problem presented to the world by the destructive power of atomic energy overshadows, of course, any other problem, he wrote a fellow researcher less than two months after Hiroshima. I feel that, in addition to our professional activities in the nuclear field, we should make our voices known with respect to the political significance of science. ... 

I take my lead for this use of the term conservative from Charles B. Schmitt, John Case and Aristotelianism in Renaissance England (Kingston, ON McGill-Queen s University Press, 1983). In the present volume, as in Schmitt, conservative has no political significance, but refers rather to a rigid distinction between art and nature (by implication, its antonym liberal has the opposite meaning). See Schmitt, 191—216, especially 196, 206. 

The US remains the dominant conventional military force, but experience in a succession of wars—from Vietnam to Afghanistan—have made it clear that a conventional force cannot necessarily respond effectively to non-conventional engagements. The use of Improvised Explosive Devices (lEDs) and Explosively Formed Projectiles (EFPs) provides simple examples both classes of weapons were well-knowii, but because they were widely available and inexpensive, they have caused politically significant numbers of casualties, and have required... 

Directly related to this is Bond s ceaseless, scrupulous, ploughing of the furrow of human imagination - its nature and its dramatic and political significance. 

Government and University Research. Because the fertility industry is so lucrative, many reproductive science and engineering apphcations have emerged from private companies. However, reproductive issues are at heart social issues, and they have national and political significance. Therefore, government institutes are also important players in the field. In the United States, for example, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Agency for International Development are all m or sources of public funding for research within this discipline. 

Luke, J. 1965. Pastoralism and Politics in the Mari Period A Re-examination of the Character and Political Significance of the Major West Semitic Tribal Groups on the Middle Euphrates, ca. 1828-1758 B.C. PhD diss.. University of Michigan. 

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