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...Director of Harvard's current $350 million fundraising campaign Joseph G. Carr Radio airtime, relative to other forms of media exposure, was considerably less expensive in 1958 than it is now. And the future of American colleges was a pressing concern--only, recently come to prominence--in the post-Sputnik, pre-Mercury days...
Soviet hydrogen weapons and Sputnik foreshadowed a kind of stalemate. Once general nuclear war threatened both sides with tens of millions of casualties, the very existence of nuclear arsenals came to be perceived by many as a menace. Traditional wars had been sustained by the conviction that the consequences of defeat or surrender were worse than the costs of resistance. The nuclear specter banished that conviction. Fewer and fewer objectives seemed worth the cost or the risk...
...University and that it is an unwelcome attempt to link military considerations to financial aid which should be "based solely on need." What is not well known is that military considerations created this program. The National Defense Student Loan Program, as it was intially called, originated in the post-Sputnik scare of the late 1950's and early 1960's. The government established the program under the premise that the country would benefit economically and militarily if more Americans received a college education. Universities gleefully accepted these funds that greatly facilitated an expansion in their student enrollments. It would...
Tang: When you were in the White House, right after Sputnik, did you think of the Soviet Union as interested in world domination...
Kistiakowsky: No I didn't, but a lot of people did. I kept saying on all possible occasions that they are really a very poor country which is technically way behind. They have some spectaculars. They have the atom bomb. Now they have launched the Sputnik. But everything else is pathetically weak...