How Well Do You Know Nuclear Technologies and Verification Methods?

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What is the main challenge in verifying the relinquishment of GNR technologies?

  • Lack of transparency in cyberspace
  • Difficulty of distinguishing between legitimate and relinquished activities (correct)
  • Lack of national laboratories to conduct military research
  • Limited availability of intellectual property protection

What was the situation with nuclear technologies in 1945?

  • Only pursued in national laboratories
  • Difficult to distinguish between commercial and military uses
  • Reasonably separable into commercial and military uses (correct)
  • No monitoring was necessary

What is required to enforce relinquishment of GNR technologies?

  • New forms of intellectual property protection
  • Increased funding for national laboratories
  • A verification regime similar to that for biological weapons (correct)
  • A reduction in individual privacy and freedom of action

What will be necessary to verify compliance with relinquishment?

<p>A strong code of ethical conduct and whistle-blowing (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main point of the quote by Thoreau?

<p>We should be rich in the number of things we can afford to let alone (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the author's opinion on pursuing near immortality?

<p>We should consider the costs and risks before pursuing it (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Jacques Attali's book, Fraternités, describe?

<p>How our dreams of utopia have changed over time (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the difficulty of verifying relinquished activities proportional to?

<p>The difficulty of distinguishing relinquished from legitimate activities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What made the situation in 1945 simpler compared to the present situation?

<p>The nuclear technologies were reasonably separable into commercial and military uses and monitoring was aided by the nature of atomic tests and the ease with which radioactivity could be measured.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why is enforcing relinquishment of GNR technologies challenging?

<p>The GNR technologies do not divide clearly into commercial and military uses; given their potential in the market, it's hard to imagine pursuing them only in national laboratories.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the critical issue when verifying compliance of relinquishment of GNR technologies?

<p>Making the necessary transparency acceptable in a world of proprietary information, presumably by providing new forms of protection for intellectual property.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What kind of conduct should scientists and engineers adopt?

<p>A strong code of ethical conduct, resembling the Hippocratic oath.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Hans Bethe call for 50 years after Hiroshima?

<p>All scientists to cease and desist from work creating, developing, improving, and manufacturing nuclear weapons and other weapons of potential mass destruction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Thoreau say about being rich?

<p>We will be 'rich in proportion to the number of things which we can afford to let alone.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

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