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Describe the basic differences between the "scientific culture" and the "military culture" that were forced to coexist during the Manhattan Project? In what ways did they conflict? In what ways did they work together?
Answer : Culture simply means rules and thought that followed by the people who associated with it.
Scientific culture and military culture is quite two different culture
Scientific culture believes in development and reserch on new things for the development of all the living and non living things around the globe , they share information freely , pass their resarch from one country to another for the overall development of humankind . Scientific culture work on the bases of finding something new which can make life more easy and good
Military culture ; their culture is something different compare to scientific culture , they are united ,they are strong but the moto is different in their culture , they do things same as scientific culture group do but they have to keep things or we can say knowledge inbetween them in simple words they don't share what they develop because they have to serve their country first .they are good in all things but they are limited to rules of their country .
In Manhattan Project ( NUclear bomb test during IInd World War ) both military culture and scientific culture came together for the development of nuclear power , scientisit are excitted because because they want to use this nuclear power for solving the problems of mankind like power consumption and military want to use it as a weapon , due to this two different thinking their is some conflict between this two culture . they worked together to understand the power of nuclear but they have different prospective for the use of this power.