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Letter: Studying war

Published 18 November 1995

From N.P.E. Wheeler

“Professor of peace studies” is an appointment which implies at least a possibility of bias on the subject of weapons research (Review, 21 October). Paul Rogers does a good hatchet job in his review of The Good Servant: Making Peace with the Bomb at Los Alamos, but several universities have professors of war studies, and it would be interesting to hear their views.

In any case, the old Latin proverb, “Si vis pacem, para bellum” (If you want peace, prepare for war) is still true.

Issue no. 2004 published 18 November 1995

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