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What price security?

FEB 01, 1983
A National Academy panel evaluates trade‐offs between dangers to national security that arise from technology transfers and threats to the openness of scientific communication that are caused by too much secrecy.
Dale Corson

“There is an overlap between technological information and national security which inevitably produces tension. This tension results from the scientist’s desire for unconstrained research and publication on the one hand, and the Federal government’s need to protect certain information from potential foreign adversaries who might use that information against this nation. Both are powerful forces. Thus, it should not be a surprise that finding a workable and just balance between them is quite difficult.” So said Admiral Bobby R. Inman, then Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in a speech at the 7 January 1982 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Dale Corson, Cornell University, Led the National Academy Panel.

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Volume 36, Number 2

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