Computing, Research, and War: If Knowledge is Power, Where is Responsibility?

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 1989, Pages 939-951

  Beusmans, Jack ^a   Wieckert, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84976720378     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/65971.65973     Document Type: Article

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