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Do you think if you mass drop all the important physics paper and maths paper on nuclear physics in syria - then somehow ISIS will be able to create a nuclear weapon ?

It takes an intellectually advanced society to understand another intellectually advanced nation.

If science produced in the US was actually superior, demand for US scientists would sky-rocket globally.

US education would have higher value.

And other countries will try to match the US in science funding.




> Do you think if you mass drop all the important physics paper and maths paper on nuclear physics in syria - then somehow ISIS will be able to create a nuclear weapon ?

I don't know about this particular example, but I do know that some scientific works are kept secret because they do have obvious military applications. I have only one example I'm sure of, the Orion project, but I'd be surprised if there are not lots of others.




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