European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes August 1985 columns comments William Buckley scientists offer unsettling thoughts on Star wars re Awn Jeanfrancois revels How democracies is on the of having a permanent expert Datum after Day after slide and into one of the slots opened up by a Reading of that its thesis is that in All probability the Western democracies Are doomed be cause they or at any rate do summon the will to think let alone to act the reason for this is that there inheres in pluralism the tendency to to question everything including the rights we to to beyond the single proposition that Flitcr was an evil human it would be difficult to get anything like a consensus among american intellectuals on any other single the liberation of Grenada was held by Many to be an Bellicose we refer routinely to the two superpowers As though they were Cut out of the same moral Iii problem rises in connection with the role of the nations scientists in doing research for Star the new York in a Long reports much scientific activism aimed at promoting if it were would amount to a strike by scientists against the development of our strategic defense on one Campus alone the University of Illinois at Urbana professors in the physics department have signed a petition urging a Boycott of Star calling deeply dangerous and enormously sex arguments with which to Cope with such positions Arent hard to come up to be most for in would agree that self government is the Best and the american people have elected a president and a con Gress that have endorsed research into Star in All the individual conscience should be but the civic consequences of cooperation Only with government projects one believes in ought not to fade from a strike by construction workers against a state that has undertaken to build a Highway from a to b instead of from a prime to b prime would not tend to fortify democratic self arguments on the other two Points arc easily it requires the capacity for hard paradoxical reasoning to classify As dangerous research designed not to kill Anthony Lewis bomb inventors assail Star wars but to prevent people from being and it is certainly expensive to provide for our continued but the consensus is that Between 6 per cent and 7 percent of the Gross National product is simply what we have to face As Long As there Are ugly people in the world who have nuclear weapons and the will to enslave other but arguments in favor of Star wars Are less than the phenomenon of so Many scientists refusing to cooperate with a duly constituted National one line some Are taking is that association with the project implies approval of at the far end of imaginary enterprises one can understand this the scientists employed by Mengele to Experiment with human beings were certainly involved in an Enterprise heinous beyond the Powers of any sophist to the scientist who worked on the atom bomb is always advanced As the locus the ultimate example of scientific seduction for evil Pur but winning world War ii was not an evil nor was it an evil purpose to kill japanese in Exchange for the lives of 1 million americans who would have lost their lives in a protracted amphibious opera Tion against Hitler was himself working on the and in due course might have produced it if we had not used All the scientific resources at our Dispo Sal to destroy that evil just As we need to Honor the right of the conscientious who will not fight anyone under any we need to Honor the conscience of the scientist who will not use his mind for the Benefit of any Mili tary never mind that this one is defensive in what hurts is the evangelism of the scientists in it int the assertion of their individual rights that they Are it is the assertions of the rights of they live in a self governing nation determined to be whose Lead ers Are gradually recognizing that the doctrine of Mutual assured destruction is morally and seek to do some thing about the Union of concerned which is the principal engine of what amounts to unilateral disarmament in the scientific uses the language revel warns us against the soviet Union and the United states Are just the Down with our Down the ultimate implication with Hiroshima Park a Celebration of life amid death we have known the facts and feelings since John jerseys Hiroshi but the place itself has an Impact beyond any visitors three things strike me about Hiroshi visiting there for the first it is a City dedicated to memory to remembering what Man did to but it is about not it is a place of Vic Tims that breathes no spirit of just below where the bomb exploded on the morning of is the peace a museum at one end of the Park shows something of what happened that Day and a diorama shows Hiroshima As it was in spread Over a shallow bowl among unlike Many japanese it had not been a 1946 report of the strategic bombing Survey said Many people Felt they would be spared there were so Many Many japanese americans came from i he City was a famous Beauty spot these and other even More Fantas tic reasons encouraged a Small red Globe hanging Over the museum Model of the City Marks the feet in the where the bomb that first nuclear its Power tiny by today killed people at another or so died in the next three the museum exhibits include unbearable photographs of some who per haps their skin burned there is a picture of one curious medical result a mans Fingernail that for years afterwards grew out there Are the Granite Steps of a etched on them the Shadow of a person who was sitting there that Akihiro the former director of the is himself a Hiyaku Shane a bomb affected As they Are he was at Junior High about a mile from the when the bomb went my clothes were he the outer skin came off my my my arms it dangled from my pieces of Glass were driven into one into this he held up his mangled right fore it killed something w you have seen my Black Nail in the when i looked i could see very because the whole City was i made my Way to the on the Way i saw Many people with far worse injuries a woman with her eyes a Mother and baby with their skin All Takahashi was treated for a year and a half for his since 1971 he has been hospitalized seven times with liver he goes to the Hospital every Day now to get an intravenous he spoke without visible emotion about All and so i asked whether he Felt anger toward those who dropped the r7 be tellin8 a he if i said i was free of hatred of the United states it was the japanese leaders who led us into the and second the scientists who recommended the manufacture of atomic and third president Truman and others who decided to drop the bomb these Are the people against whom our hatred should be but i think it would be unfortunate for anyone to be constantly haunted by that will not bring so even though the feeling of hatred May not be completely i feel that i can overcome it and Only then bring peace to Takahashi words help to explain what one senses in unlike most peo ple who have been the victims of those in Hiroshima do not spend their time assigning that is not because they Are they simply see no Point in the Point is to keep the worst from Hap pening that is the message of the peace As touching a memorial As i have there Are pools of recalling the victims who died give me there is a Grassy Mound containing the ashes of but cicadas hum in the schoolgirls in round Straw hats wander lovers lie on the it is a Cele bration of life amid in Hiroshima All the arguments of faction and ideology seem Remote from it is not necessary to raise ones life is enough life and but do we remember c new York times news service