After the war, many of the scientists who had served on the Manhattan Project argued that continuing the secrecy in science that was exhibited during the war was unethical. I believe this is an ethical issue which persists today. The general pubic has a right to know what is happening in government laboratories which is funded by their own taxpayer dollars. But how much of this knowledge can be safely released to the general public? Is releasing sensitive scientific information to our nation’s population a breach of national security? I believe U.S. citizens are entitled to the information produced by our nation’s laboratories, but not at the expense of our nation’s
After the war, many of the scientists who had served on the Manhattan Project argued that continuing the secrecy in science that was exhibited during the war was unethical. I believe this is an ethical issue which persists today. The general pubic has a right to know what is happening in government laboratories which is funded by their own taxpayer dollars. But how much of this knowledge can be safely released to the general public? Is releasing sensitive scientific information to our nation’s population a breach of national security? I believe U.S. citizens are entitled to the information produced by our nation’s laboratories, but not at the expense of our nation’s