IDS 255: Science, Technology, and Nuclear Weapons. The study of the effects of technology on the many issues related to nuclear weapons, including strategic arsenals, past and present attempts at arms control, nuclear proliferation, and nuclear disarmament. Special emphasis is given to understanding future technological trends in the post cold war climate.  Instructor:  Peter Pella Syllabus

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"Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair-trigger balances, when a false, or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act." - James Thurber

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."
                                                                             -General Omar Bradley

 “We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning ourresponse.”
                                                                                  - Sam Nunn, NTI

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
                                                                                                                 - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We are part of the earth and it is part of us.  All things are connected. 
We did not weave the web.  We are merely strands in it. Whatever  we do to the web, we do to ourselves... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth." -Chief Seattle

"There was a bright light, a shattering of shop windows....
     These are the days of miracle and wonder...." -Paul Simon
 

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