Risk and the Control of Technology: Public Policies for Road Traffic Safety in Britain and the United States
- ISBN-10
- 0719018293
- ISBN-13
- 9780719018299
- Category
- Roads
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Author
- Alan Irwin
Description
In 1955 for example , the Christian pacifist physicist C. A. Coulson , who had in 1945 refused to work on a nuclear - related research project , felt able to support such work on the grounds that production of nuclear weapons was by ...
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