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DESPITE many attempts to prove the contrary, the sciences have remained genuinely international in content and development, while their application in all the diverse fields of human endeavour has assumed recognizably similar forms even in the most varied geographical and political environments. An interesting example is the development of weapons and of instruments of war, which has been along broadly similar lines in all those countries possessing sufficient technical resources to enable serious progress to be made. In nearly all directions in which the Allies achieved notable success, Germany had also experimented-and vice versa. This is, of course, because such developments are based on identical scientific principles, already well known internationally before the War.
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KING, A. THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC OFFICE IN WASHINGTON. Nature 157, 63–64 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157063a0
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