Article ID: CBB867375269

Beyond the Reach of Regulation? "Basic" and "Applied" Research in the Early Cold War United States (April 2018)

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This article describes the place of the basic/applied science distinction in negotiations over the limits of secrecy between the U.S. "scientific" community and the American government. It combines an analysis of Vannevar Bush's key report to the President in 1945 with Congressional hearings in the late 1950s that were concerned about the increasingly vast scope of government controls over the circulation of knowledge. The concept of "basic research" was used as a political weapon to push back against the extended, uncoordinated, and frustrating constraints on the circulation of new research findings by the expanding apparatus of the National Security State. Mapping basic vs. applied research onto open vs. regulated and classified knowledge served as key to a workable political compromise between the scientific and national security communities.

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Authors & Contributors
Weiss, Linda
McDonald, Bryan L.
Karamouzi, Eirini
Melanie Brand
Chourchoulis, Dionysios
Martin, Joseph D.
Concepts
Cold War
National security
Science and politics
Secrecy
Pure science as a concept
Technology and war; technology and the military
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Arctic regions
Greenland
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Institutions
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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