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Last week U.S. scientists felt better when they read a report by Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime head of the OSRD (Office of Scientific Research and Development) and president of the Carnegie Institution. Said Bush: "It is now recognized all over the world that the application of science is central in national security." But he warned that basic, not-yet-applied sciences should not be neglected. "As a people we are strongly philotechnical [gadget-loving] ; we have always excelled in the applied. We have not turned with the same success to more philosophical matters. In many branches of science, we have...
Department of Science. At present Vannevar Bush is the nearest thing to a U.S. Secretary of Science. He is chairman of the JRDB (Joint Research and Development Board), which has power over the billion dollars or so a year which the armed services are spending on research. This enormous sum has already become the dominant factor in U.S. science...
Deputy to Director Vannevar Bush of the OSRD and special consultant to Major General Leslie Groves, Conant was the No. 1 intermediary between scientists, industrialists and military, an indispensable link in building the Bomb. His success in this role does not make Conant altogether happy. He considers control of the Bomb the world's biggest job, flew to Moscow last December, as an adviser to Secretary Byrnes, to discuss with Molotov and the Russians plans for atomic-energy control. While he was there, he added Moscow to the alumni kerosene circuit...
President Conant, who shares billing with such notables as Albert Einstein and Major General Leslie R. Groves to reenact the evolution of the A-bomb, is co-starred with Vannevar Bush in a scene filmed in a Cambridge garage and portraying the first explosion of the bomb...
...record of its vast labor, in 2,500,000 volumes (almost enough to fill the New York Public Library), will be turned over to the Government by Director Vannevar Bush...