The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
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... atom bomb as a cheaper means for effecting the same result . The other name for this explosive increase of energy , then , was totali- tarian de - moralization : the same animus that since 1945 has led the chief garrison states to ...
... atom bomb as a cheaper means for effecting the same result . The other name for this explosive increase of energy , then , was totali- tarian de - moralization : the same animus that since 1945 has led the chief garrison states to ...
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... atom bomb , it was their innocence that concealed from them , at least in the initial stages , the dreadful ultimate consequences of their effort . Certainly the physicists who were alert to the immediate threat the splitting of the atom ...
... atom bomb , it was their innocence that concealed from them , at least in the initial stages , the dreadful ultimate consequences of their effort . Certainly the physicists who were alert to the immediate threat the splitting of the atom ...
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... atom bomb . Well before the first atom bomb was tested , the American Air Force had adopted the hitherto ' un- thinkable ' practice of the wholesale , indiscriminate bombing of con- centrated civilian populations : this paralleled ...
... atom bomb . Well before the first atom bomb was tested , the American Air Force had adopted the hitherto ' un- thinkable ' practice of the wholesale , indiscriminate bombing of con- centrated civilian populations : this paralleled ...
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CONTENTS | 3 |
THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
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