Beginning in the late nineteenth century, advancements in science and technology increasingly intersected with national politics, security interests, and military agendas.

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TopicBeginning in the late nineteenth century, advancements in science and technology increasingly intersected with national politics, security interests, and military agendas. Did national politics and military agendas promote or hinder scientific inquiry, autonomy, and ethics between the late nineteenth century and 1945? In responding you
might consider the following in order to write a well-informed essay: how ideas of progress, professionalization, and collaboration shaped the sciences, how the scientific community viewed nationalism and entertained dissenting views,whether scientists or government officials proved more successful in maintaining control over the development and use of new technology, and how scientists themselves defined their autonomy and ethical viewpoints during this time.