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The Report was suppressed, "both by the Special Study Group itself and by the government INTERAGENCY committee to which it had been submitted. After months of agonizing, Doe" decided to go public.
Group members were carefully chosen for their physical and social sciences expertise, as well as their years of academic, government and/or business experience, qualifying them for their assignment.
In releasing the material, "Doe" said his:
"responsibility to the society for which I am part supersedes any self-assumed obligation on the part of the fifteen individual men....What is needed now, and needed badly, is widespread public discussion and debate about the elements of war and the problems of peace."
Issues addressed included:
-- the notion that the "basic authority of a modern state over its people resides in its war powers;"
-- world peace would cause "unparalleled and revolutionary" social structure changes;
-- disarmament's economic impact;
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