Read Enemy of the People. This work raises questions that relate to most of the other readings in the course, questions that students themselves often raise during class discussions. Begin reading Chris Devine on Science in Core IV booklet. Modern science has revealed a counter-intuitive universe beyond the Newtonian universe. That Was China, Public Television.
Nuclear war is a plague invented by human beings through technology and science.
The fact of nuclear proliferation reminds us that even without the Cold War, the world can still tear itself apart. Putting matters in their most general terms, the people of the earth face the question of control versus chaos. Kaplan's considers this dilemma in a global perspective. Read Camus's The Plague. This text shows us human beings slowly becoming aware and responding to the threat of almost total destruction.