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General Manager Carroll Wilson, a boyish-looking, scholarly protégé of Vannevar Bush and David Lilienthal, marched into the President's office and quit. He had no confidence, he said, in Gordon Dean, the man Truman had just appointed AEC chairman. Wilson said that the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy under Connecticut's Senator Brien Mc-Mahon was trying to become "a super board of directors," and argued that Dean, who was formerly a law partner of McMahon's, had neither the ability nor the inclination to resist political interference...
...Said Vannevar Bush, wartime head...
...Haunted. The effects of economy, graphic in general, were even more discouraging in detail. The details were in reports of exercises curtailed, of research and weapon development squeezed down, procurement postponed and pared. New weapons, hopefully discussed, were still mostly only on drawing boards or in the head of Vannevar Bush...
...political-and therefore a moral-question. In 1900 scientists had not greatly concerned themselves with political or moral issues, but as the half-century ended they knew themselves to be very deeply involved in such questions. A sharp warning on the political future came from a scientist, Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime boss of the Government's scientific mobilization and head of the Carnegie Institution of Washington...
Military security has terribly hampered Vannevar Bush's discussion of the prospect of future war and its effect on what he calls "our society of free men." Bush, who as wartime head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development probably knows as much about the impact of science on modern warfare as anyone, sets down a double thesis: that a forthcoming war will not be very different from World War II, and that a democracy should be capable of preparing itself to prevent such...