Access
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
Essay
Nature 449, 543 (4 October 2007) | doi:10.1038/449543a; Published online 3 October 2007
Open Innovation Challenges
- More Challenges
- Powered by:
nature jobs
Assistant or Associate Professor of Neurobiology
- Medical College of Georgia
- Augusta, GA United States
Pharmacology Group Leader
- S*BIO Pte Ltd
- Singapore
Science & politics How the mighty have fallen
Richard Garwin1
- Richard Garwin is IBM fellow emeritus at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598, USA and a former member of the PSAC.
Abstract
In 1957, science advisers were brought into the White House as the President's Science Advisory Committee. Its demise has deprived the US government of invaluable counsel.
The Second World War left the United States with enormous energy among its scientists and great advances in technology — for example, radar, the proximity fuse, nuclear weapons and the ability to detect sound underwater. Taking office in 1953, President Dwight Eisenhower consulted the little-known Science Advisory Committee (SAC) in the Office of Defense Mobilization.
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
