The Cold War and American Science
Subtitle: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: April 15, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780231079594
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Mathematics and Science; Universities / polytechnics; Warfare & Defence; c 1945 to c 1960; c 1960 to c 1970; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; General; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Political Science / General
First sentence: Sizing up MIT in 1962 from his perspective as the director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Physicist Alvin Weinberg, who coined the term "big science," quipped that it was becoming increasingly hard "to tell whether the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a university with many government research laboratories appended to it or a cluster of government research laboratories with a very good educational institution attached to it."