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American Science: Ethical Conflicts and Political Choices
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- Instructor
- Dr. Brendan Foley
- Term
- Fall 2007
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 10 other files · 2 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare STS.011 American Science: Ethical Conflicts and Political Choices, Fall 2007, Dr. Brendan Foley — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Readings
- Natural Gas in the New England Region: Implications for Offshore Wind Generation and Fuel Diversity Download
- Statement on the Cape Wind Project Download
- The Nuremberg Code Download
Lecture Notes
- World War II: A Technological and Psychological Turning Point? Download
- "Atomic Secrets," Physicists, and the Cold War Download
- Cold War Science and Technology:Military-Industrial-University Complex Download
- Engineering Ethics: The Challenger Accident Download
- Media Contacts – Good, Bad, and Some Really Bad Download
- Cape Wind: Energy for Life Download
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Lecture 4: Science, military research, and the national security state ( PDF ) (Courtesy of Prof. David Kaiser. Used with permission.)
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Lecture 5: Military influence on American science ( PDF - 3.3 MB )
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Lecture 8: Space program: Challenger and Columbia ( PDF - 2.0 MB ) (Courtesy of Prof. Jeffrey Hoffman. Used with permission.)
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Lecture 19: Climate change research ( PDF - 1.0 MB ) (Courtesy of Dr. William Curry. Used with permission.)
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Lecture 20: Alternatives to fossil fuels ( PDF - 3.3 MB ) (Courtesy of Cape Wind Associates, LLC. Used with permission.)
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