Bomber Command was an early example of the new evil that science and technology have added to the old evils of soldiering. Technology has made evil anonymous. Through science ann technology, evil is organized bureaucratically so that no individual is responsible for what happens. Neither the boy in the [plane] aiming his bombs at an ill-defined splodge on his radar screen, nor the operations officer shuffling papers at squadron headquarters, nor I sitting in my little office in the Operational Research Section and calculating probabilities, had any feeling of personal responsibility. None ever saw the people killed. None of us particularly cared.”

                             ~ Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe 

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