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Nature 416, 351 (28 March 2002) | doi:10.1038/416351a
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The case for the JASONs
Abstract
Two of the most secretive research operations in the United States have chosen a strange time to embark on an unseemly and unnecessary public row, potentially undermining the advice available to the administration on national defence.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — the advanced research wing of the Pentagon — is in the process of severing its links with the JASONs, an esteemed élite group of scientific advisers that has independently reviewed classified research for decades (see page 353).The news of this breach, as the United States stands at the brink of unknown military actions in its proclaimed war against terrorism, could hardly come at a more inauspicious time.
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