In this lecture there is the mention of a discussion between Lise Meitner and Otto Fisch about the ethical implications of publishing their results, because the result does imply that it is possible to build a nuclear bomb.
This is one if the standard examples in debates about "dual use" technology. They did publish their result shortly after, and it lead to the race for the nuclear bomb.
In defence of the argument for publishing, I just had the thought that even though usually the debate about nuclear reactions is centered on warfare vs. civilian energy production, there also is the application of nuclear medicine. And putting warefare and energy production into relation to nuclear medicine, we simply must conclude that in absoute numbers nuclear technology has saved orders of magnitudes more people than it harmed!
So it is kind of hard to find a "dual use" technology, that did not, at least in the long run, create more benefit to humanity than suffering. Do you know an example of such a technology?
https://youtu.be/Z8dKcaVFTsA?list=PLEd-FHe0va8k
https://www.nature.com/articles/143239a0
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