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large facilities and expensive equipment, beyond the financial means 

 of many individual scientific organizations and even many nations." ** 

 Speaking as Secretary of State to the Panel on Science and Tech- 

 nology of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, Jan- 

 uary 24, 1967. Dean Rusk described the need to deal more explicity with 

 the "uncharted region where the interests of science and foreign policy 

 meet" : 



For any American involved in public affairs today [he said], scientific literacy 

 is a must ; and that is particularly so in foreign affairs. We are firmly convinced 

 that the Foreign Service officer should be familiar with the ways, the concepts, 

 and the purposes of science. He should be able to grasp the social and economic 

 implication of current scientific discoveries and engineering accomplish- 

 ments. * * * 



But the burden is not all on one side. Scientists and engineers must, of course, 

 recognize very real progress in many fields outside their own specialties, and they 

 should be conscious of the difference between the values of society and the verifi- 

 able truths of the natural sciences. For such men there is a role in the foreign 

 policy process. 



Secretary Rusk also spoke of the need to look ahead, in appraising 

 future prospects and opportunities in science and technology as these 

 impact on the foreign policy process : "We cannot clearly foresee the 

 advances, discoveries, and innovations which lie ahead, but the uses to 

 which we put the new knowledge in our human relationships may well 

 be critical." It was necessary to "* * * examine some aspects of the 

 changing modern environment which are of direct concern to foreign 

 affairs, many of which can only be dealt with internationally." As 

 examples, he suggested the pollution of the atmosphere, population 

 pressures, the spread of nuclear power reactors, the need for a "co- 

 operative assault on the treasure chest of the seas," the "challenges of 

 our space environment," and assistance to the developing countries in 

 building a base for their technological competence. He also called for 

 an "alliance of the natural sciences with the social sciences in meeting 

 new facets of old problems in the world laboratory." ** 



Caryl P. Haskins, president of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington, has called for a "scientific revolution" among the developing 

 countries as a means of spurring their advance. While there were 

 material reasons for his proposal, it was in the "* * * qualities of 

 science as a structure of communication, of philosophy, of faith that 

 we find the deepest reasons." 



Without a living science, the new countries will have no access to the cultural 

 world fraternity that the fabric of scientific understanding implies. They will not 

 share in the lofty concepts that form the priceless heritage of the scientifically 

 literate peoples. They will be denied access to one of the significant assurances that 

 there is an inherent logic, an underlying stability, unifying the currents of scien- 

 tific and technical change that so alarmingly threaten to engulf them. * * * 

 Finally, an original science demands, as it also stimulates, the development of 

 the critical and creative habits of mind that are essential to the leadership of the 



23 Glenn T. Seaborj,'. "What's Ahead for International Science V Article based upon 

 • i Bpeech delivered at the International Conference on Nuclear Physics held in Gatlinburg, 

 Tennessee, September 13, 1966. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (January 1067), \>. 26. 



-'Dean Kusk. "Science and Foreign Affairs." Keynote address made before Hie eighth 

 annual Panel on Science and Technology of the House Committee on Science and Astro- 

 nautics, by the Hon. Dean Kusk, Secretary of State, January 24, 1!»<!7. Department of 

 state Bulletin (February 13, 19G7), pp. 238-242. 



