The Cold War and American Science

The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford

By: Stuart W. Leslie

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Hardcover | 18 February 1993 | Edition Number 1

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American science was as much the victim as the beneficiary of the Cold War. What science may have gained in funding, prestige, and political clout, it lost in independence and integrity. As one prominent scientist put it, the military bought American science on the installment plan, with fateful consequences for intellectual freedom. Military money and expectations blurred traditional distinctions between theory and practice, civilian and military, and claffified and unclassified, creating a new kind of American science that derived its character as well as its contracts from the Pentagon. Focusing on MIT and Stanford, Stuart Leslie reveals a regrettable series of misplaced priorities and missed opportunities that have characterized the recent history of science and technology.

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"An eye-opener. During the Second World War, American universities won R& D contracts far bigger than those awarded to industrial giants.... Leslie shows how these seductive handouts finally compromised intellectual freedom and crumbled the American economy, causing campus riots on the way." -- "New Scientist" "An eye-opener. During the Second World War, American universities won R& D contracts far bigger than those awarded to industrial giants.... Leslie shows how these seductive handouts finally compromised intellectual freedom and crumbled the American economy, causing campus riots on the way." -- New Scientist "An eye-opener. During the Second World War, American universities won R& D contracts far bigger than those awarded to industrial giants.... Leslie shows how these seductive handouts finally compromised intellectual freedom and crumbled the American economy, causing campus riots on the way." -- "New Scientist"

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Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
A University Polarized Around the Military	p. 14
Steeple Building in Electronics	p. 44
Military Guidance and Control	p. 76
Sonic Boom	p. 102
The Power of the Nucleus	p. 133
Accelerating Physics	p. 160
A Matter of State	p. 188
Materiel Science	p. 212
The Days of Reckoning: March 4 and April 3	p. 233
Notes	p. 257
Index	p. 315
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