Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century - Couverture souple

Zachary, G. Pascal

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0262740222 ISBN 13 : 9780262740227

Editeur : The MIT Press, 1999

Synopsis

A balanced, thoughtful biography of Vannevar Bush, whose work gave rise to the modern military-industrial complex even as he passionately fought to halt the arms race.

As a young professor at MIT in the 1920s, Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) did seminal work on analog computing and was a cofounder of Raytheon, whose initial success was based on long-lasting radio tubes. But he is best known for his role in Washington during World War II: as President Roosevelt's advisor, he organized the Manhattan Project and oversaw the work of 6,000 civilian scientists designing new weapons. His 1945 report "Science—The Endless Frontier" spurred the creation of a system of public support for university research that endures to this day. Although he helped to give rise to the military-industrial complex, Bush was a skeptical observer of the interplay between science and politics. He warned against the dangers of an arms race and led a failed effort to halt testing of the hydrogen bomb. This balanced and gracefully written biography brings to life an American original and his times.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262740222
• ISBN 13: 9780262740227
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 528
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