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Nature 414, 249 (15 November 2001) | doi:10.1038/35104783

Don't use terrorism as an excuse for militarism

Morton K. Brussel1

  1. Loomis Laboratory of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA

In your Opinion article "Anti-terrorist agendas" (Nature 413, 655; 2001) you seem to have swallowed whole the assumptions about a new 'war' promoted by the Bush administration. You discuss how the science community may assist its governments in what I consider a false war.