Science, technology and democracy

Minerva

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-51

  Salomon, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a Groupe Futuribles   (France)

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EID: 33750894148     PISSN: 00264695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026552331409     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Galileo, Letter to Christine of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1615), translated by François Russo, Revue d'Histoire des Sciences, 128 (4) (October-December 1964), 362.
2. Quoted by Hannah Arendt, Truth and Polities', in Between Past and Future (New York: The Viking Press, 1968), 240.
3. Galileo, quoted in op. cit. note 1, 350.
4. Bernard Barber, Science and the Social Order (New York: Colllier Books, 1962), 95 and 121.
5. Ross Gelbspan, The Heat is On: The High Stakes Battle over the Earth's Threatened Climate (New York: Addison-Wesley, 1997).
6. Eugene B. Skolnikoff, Same Science, Differing Policies: The Saga of Global Climate Change, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Report (22), August 1997, 55-56.
7. For all these quotations and those which follow about nuclear debates, see Jean-Jacques Salomon, 'Terror and Scruples', Introduction to Salomon (ed.), Science, War and Peace (Paris: Economica, 1990).
8. For Oppenheimer and Teller, see In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Transcript of Hearings before the Personal Security Board (Washington, DC: GPO, 1954), 716 and 251.
9. Pierre Chambon, 'Les obligations de l'homme génétique', Le Monde (30 June 1994), 2.
10. Jean-Jacques Salomon, Survivre à la science: Une certaine idée du futur (Paris: Albin Michel), 1999), ch. 8.
11. See also Salomon, 'Le clonage humain: où est la limite?', Futuribles, 221 (June 1997), 55-68.
12. Ken Alibek and Stephen Handelman, Biohazard: The Chilling Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons in the World: Told from Inside by the Man who Ran It (New York: Delta, 2000).
13. See the review by Max F. Perutz, 'The Threat of Biological Weapons', The New York Review of Books (April 2000), 44-49.
14. John von Neumann, 'Can We Survive Technology?', Fortune Magazine (1955), 32-47, which presents him in these words: 'Budapest-born John von Neumann, like many fellow scientists of the atomic age, harbors a streak of the blues, but his delicate shade may be called constructive pessimism.'
15. Michel Foucault, quoted in Jacques Theys, 'Postface', in C. Douriens, J.-P. Gaillard et al. (eds.), Conquête de la sécurité, Gestion des risques (Paris: L'Harmattant, 1991).
16. Charles P. Snow, Science and Government (New York: Mentor Books, 1962).
17. This does not underestimate nuclear contamination in America (Hanford, Savannah River, West Valley). See, for instance, Earning Trust and Confidence: Requisites for Managing Radioactive Waste, Final Report of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Task Force on Radioactive Waste Management (Washington, DC: GPO, 1994). But long before that year, there were many papers, reports and books available in the US on the lack of care concerning nuclear waste management. In the Soviet Union, public discussion of the issue began only with Chernobyl.
18. Jürgen Habermas, Legitimation Crisis (Boston: Beacon Press, 1975)
19. and his dialogue with Niklas. Luhman, Theorie des Gescellschaft oder Sozialtechnologie (Frankfurt: Surkamp, 1975).
20. Jean-Jacques Salomon, Le destin technologique (Paris: Balland, 1992, re-issued by Gallimard Folio, 1994).
21. Sherry R. Arnstein, 'A Ladder of Public Participation', The Journal of the American Institute of Planners, XXXV (July 1969) 216-224. It was Lord Ashby who called my attention to this paper (see note 19).
22. Gérard Mendel and Colette Guedeney, L'Angoisse atomique et les centrales nucléaires (Paris: Payot, 1978), 31.
23. Lord Ashby, review of Guild Nichols, Technology on Trial (Paris: OECD, 1979)
24. in Nature (21 February 1980), 713.