This book illuminates how Berkner became a model that produced the scientist/advisor/policymaker that helped build post-war America. It does so by providing a detailed account of the personal and professional beliefs of one of the most influential figures in the American scientific community; a figure that helped define the political and social climates that existed in the United States during the Cold War.
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"Carefully written and thoroughly researched, Needell's fine study adds a new dimension to our understanding of the relations between science, policy, and the state. Highly recommended.--R.E. Bilstein, emeritus, University of Houston."
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The U.S. federal government at many junctures profoundly and positively influenced Lloyd Viel Berkner's life and career. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
radio astronomy conference, radio astronomy facility, summer study group, continental defense, satellite proposal, ionospheric sounder, air defense problem, satellite effort, scatter communications, virtual height, defense research agency, early warning line, radio section, terrestrial magnetism, international scientific organizations, radar research, national security bureaucracy, national security planning, executive committee minutes, radio science, trustees minutes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
State Department, United States, Carnegie Institution, New York, Berkner Papers, Bureau of Standards, Project Troy, Soviet Union, College Park, Lloyd Berkner, Secretary of Defense, Vannevar Bush, Merle Tuve, National Security Council, Rad Lab, National Science Foundation, Defense Department, Secret Correspondence, Lincoln Summer Study, National Academy of Sciences, Record Group, Bush Papers, Department of State, National Archives, Policy Council New!
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The U.S. federal government at many junctures profoundly and positively influenced Lloyd Viel Berkner's life and career. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
radio astronomy conference, radio astronomy facility, summer study group, continental defense, satellite proposal, ionospheric sounder, air defense problem, satellite effort, scatter communications, virtual height, defense research agency, early warning line, radio section, terrestrial magnetism, international scientific organizations, radar research, national security bureaucracy, national security planning, executive committee minutes, radio science, trustees minutes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
State Department, United States, Carnegie Institution, New York, Berkner Papers, Bureau of Standards, Project Troy, Soviet Union, College Park, Lloyd Berkner, Secretary of Defense, Vannevar Bush, Merle Tuve, National Security Council, Rad Lab, National Science Foundation, Defense Department, Secret Correspondence, Lincoln Summer Study, National Academy of Sciences, Record Group, Bush Papers, Department of State, National Archives, Policy Council New!
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- The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford by Stuart W. Leslie on 4 pages
- Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department by Dean Acheson on 4 pages
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- Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History) by Nils Gilman on page 316
- Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine) by Roger D. Lanius in Back Matter
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