1956
DOI: 10.1063/1.3059846
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Abstract: For the last fifteen years, a great part of physical research in the United States and a high proportion of the working hours of US physicists have been related, in one way or another, to national security. During World War II the objectives of physicists and their research programs were more or less clearly defined. The overriding task then was to produce the better weapons and countermeasures which could, and did, speed the day of victory. The impressive wartime successes in applied research helped to establ… Show more

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