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Is a scientist working on a nuclear bomb a civilian? In the strict sense, yes, but it is very close to not being one.
by abnry 6y ago
Is a scientist working on a nuclear bomb a civilian? In the strict sense, yes, but it is very close to not being one.
- e12e 6y agoFrom tfa: > But some American officials argued that the death of Mr. Fakhrizadeh, the latest in a string of such mysterious killings of Iran’s top nuclear scientists, would send a chilling message to the country’s other top scientists working on that program: If we can get him, we can get you, too.
- whimsicalism 6y agoIs a computer scientist working on AWS a civilian? The DoD uses AWS.
- abnry 6y agoA scientist leading the project of constructing a massive weapon does not compare to a scientist working as part of a cog in the wheel on a service that is used both by the government and other companies that is not related to weapon construction any more than a screw driver is related to weapon construction.