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...nominate Dr. Vannevar Bush as Man of the Year for that reason...
...corral fence and scramble for cover had been tempting. The nation was aching for an excuse to quit worrying about being blown up en masse. Both the President and the Army demanded immediate passage. So did an impressive knot of scientists-OSRD's Dr. Vannevar Bush, Harvard's President, Dr. James Bryant Conant and the Manhattan Project's Major General Leslie R. Groves...
What did "out of control" mean? There were many possibilities. Dr. Vannevar Bush, head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, described some: "I certainly . . . want to see rigid federal control of what is done in this area [atomic research]. I certainly do not wish to think that some group of [atomic] experimenters might set up a laboratory half a mile from my home and family and . . . poison the neighborhood, or possibly blow it up. . . .I say we are faced with a very difficult thing to control . . . and I would make a very strong commission to do it." Bush...
...good at it that President Roosevelt sent him to London during the blitz. He was one of only four Americans to be entrusted with all U.S.-British technical secrets (the others: famed scientists Vannevar Bush, Karl T. Compton, James Bryant Conant). When the Nazis buzzed over their V-1 and V2, Hovde was drafted to devise countermeasures. He has since supervised the entire U.S. rocket-development program...
Last week it looked as if U.S. citizens (and the press) might soon be permitted to talk out loud about radar. The Army, Navy, Vannevar Bush's OSRD and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics had set up a new Joint Board on Scientific Information Policy. Purpose of the Board was to tell the U.S. public some scientific facts of life which are no secret to the Japanese. Scientists considered it high time...