Futures Studies: A New Social Science Rooted in Cold War Strategic Thinking

Abstract

In his 1953 presidential farewell address, Harry S. Truman anticipated a “new era…a wonderful golden age” when U.S. capital and science would be “released from the tasks of defense and turned wholly to peaceful purposes all around the world.” Full of hope, he exclaimed there would be “no end to what can be done…[to] do away with poverty and human misery everywhere on the earth.” Truman looked to the future with confidence. He had no doubt that the “menace of Communism,” which he considered the “overriding issue of his time,” would eventually be won over. 1

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