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Article ID: CBB000700652

Project Vista, Caltech, and the Dilemmas of Lee DuBridge (2004)

McCray, W. Patrick (Author)

Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Volume: 34
Pages: 339--370

DOI: 10.1525/hsps.2004.34.2.339

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Science and government Science and war; science and the military Cold War 20th century, late United States Oppenheimer, J. Robert Fowler, William A. DuBridge, Lee Project Vista California Institute of Technology

Description On the efforts of DuBridge, William Fowler, J. Robert Oppenheimer and others in 1951 to make recommendations to the US government on how existing technologies could be used in a military engagement with the Soviet Union.

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