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IMPORTANT as it is that there should be worked out as speedily as possible an adequate national defence policy embodying all the lessons and experience of the last five years, no such policy can be formulated in isolation. It should be ensured of the support of all political parties in Britain, and it must also be related to the policies of other members of the British Commonwealth and of the United Nations. That much was clearly recognized in the debates in the House of Lords, in Lord Vansittart's plea for a permanent Inter-Allied Committee of Scientists to examine and control the use of any scientific discovery or invention considered dangerous to the safety of mankind, in Lord Strabolgi's proposal for pooling knowledge of scientific discoveries and inventions, in Lord Cherwell's reply, and in Lord Brabazon's plea for an international committee with full powers of investigation anywhere in the world. What is encouraging, however, is the evidence of the extent to which these problems are already occupying the minds of others of the United Nations, and notably in the United States.
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Science and National Defence*. Nature 156, 63–65 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156063a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156063a0