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...Waterman got his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1916, taught physics off & on at Yale until 1942, joined the Office of Scientific Research and Development (the overall agency headed by Vannevar Bush that guided wartime research). In 1946 he shifted to ONR. As director of the National Science Foundation, he will work for a board of 24 prominent scientists headed by Harvard's President James Bryant Conant. Last fall Congress appropriated $225,000 to get the foundation going, may give it up to $15 million this year to encourage basic research throughout...
...Vannevar Bush, president of the Carnegie Institution and World War II boss of scientific research, assured a Washington audience that if the Reds should start a war in Europe now, U.S. atomic bombs "would destroy Russia. We could do it without question as matters stand today . . . We could destroy not only the key centers from which her armies would be supplied, but also political centers and the communications of her armies on the march." For this reason, the doctor concluded, "no all-out war is in sight for the immediate future unless they or we make some serious error indeed...
...that the Administration, and perhaps the U.S. itself, was not fully alert to the common danger showed also in the formation by a group of distinguished U.S. leaders of a Committee on the Present Danger. High in its ranks were Harvard's President James Bryant Conant and Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime head of the Office of Scientific Research & Development. Dr. Bush complained that while Russia strengthened its radar defenses the U.S. was busy completing television networks...
...agree with Winston Churchill," said Vannevar Bush, "that our possession of the bomb has been the only deterrent to Russian aggression." Dr. Bush predicted that-with faster jet planes, proximity fuses and other developments-Russia would eventually build such a defense that the U.S. would have difficulty in delivering the bomb to any primary target. He added: "When the time comes that we can't get at primary targets, we must have some other means of stopping Russian aggression." An armed force of 3,500,000 would not be enough, he said, adding: "It can't be done...
Conant spoke for the Committee on the Present Danger. This 25-man group, which began its activities must this week, includes Conant, Presidents James Phinney Baxter, III '14 of Williams and Henry M. Wriston of Brown, William L. Marbury, member of the Harvard Corporation, Vannevar Bush, and Robert Gordon Sproul, Chancellor of the University of California...