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 | #1831094 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2003-01-30 |  2002-12-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.54 x1.27 x6.60l,1.65 | File type: PDF | 416 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A Story About Lab Budgets|By Kris|This book fills a quite specific niche. It is a detailed description of programmatic-level happenings in the National Lab system from WWII to about the mid 1960's (then to 1974 is just a post script at the end). As most of the lab's accomplishments during this period were classified, he states he got most of his info from budgets -- and it sh| |As parts of a centrally controlled research effort directed largely to national security, the national laboratories run by the Atomic Energy Commission might have seemed more appropriate to the Soviet Union than to the United States. Peter Westwick resolves th

The national laboratories--Livermore, Berkeley, Los Alamos, Argonne, Oak Ridge, and Brookhaven--have occupied a central place in the landscape of American science for more than fifty years. Responsible for the development of nuclear weapons, reactors, and other technologies that shaped American policy and culture in the Cold War, scientists from these labs also pursued physical and biomedical research that fundamentally changed our understanding of nature. But all of ...

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