Science, the endless frontier; a report to the President on a program for postwar scientific research, by Vannevar Bush, director. July 1945.

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to anticipate the specific developments that have most profoundly influenced our time, namely, the Korean war and the cold war, the missile and satellite race, the Soviet technological challenge, and the rapid acceleration of space research.Nor could Dr. Bush have estimated, in the final days of World War II, the full growth and direction of the atomic energy effort, including vii the large-scale programs and peaceful uses of nuclear energy.But he did anticipate in fullest measure that important developments would occur and that science and science education would be of immense importance in the postwar growth of the United States.The closing words of his Report were strongly prophetic: "On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear against the problems of the coming years depends in large measure our future as a nation."Science and Government

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