Cardinal Choices - Presidential Science Advising from the Atomic Bomb to Sdi. Revised and Expanded Edition

"This is an important book. . . . One strength of the work is its thoroughness in tracing the steps at which science advice has influenced momentous decisions. Another is how it delineates the gradual erosion in the impact of science advice. . . . There are many other lessons to learn from reading the book carefully, and I strongly recommend it." --Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, Physics Today

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About the author

Gregg Herken is Historian and Curator at the Space History Department of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Summary

This book is a history of the complex relations between scientific advisors, primarily physicists, and U.S. presidents in their role as decision makers about nuclear weapons and military strategy.

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"This is an important book. . . . One strength of the work is its thoroughness in tracing the steps at which science advice has influenced momentous decisions. Another is how it delineates the gradual erosion in the impact of science advice. . . . There are many other lessons to learn from reading the book carefully, and I strongly recommend it."

Product details

• Authors: Herken Gregg, Gregg Herken
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780804739665
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-3966-5
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 621 g
• Series: Stanford Nuclear Age Series; Stanford Nuclear Age (Hardcove; Stanford Nuclear Age Series; Stanford Nuclear Age
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education