"In the past, the community of scholars has made it a custom to furnish scientific information to any person seriously seeking it. However, we must face these facts: The policy of the government itself during and after the war, say in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has made it clear that to provide scientific information is not a necessarily innocent act, and may entail the gravest consequences. One therefore cannot escape reconsidering the established custom of the scientist to give information to every person who may inquire of him."
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Wiener's response to a request for information concerning controlled missiles, first published in Atlantic Monthly, December 1946
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Norbert Wiener
1894 – 1964
US-amerikanischer Mathematiker
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