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Du Pont Bomb memo
Exploring for new resources had become such a desperate concern that it even established a new field of science after the Manchurian Incident, “resource science” (shigen kagaku) or “resource chemistry” (shigen kagaku).
Hiromi Mizuno • Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan
I remained at the NAES for three and a third years from 1942 to 1945. I hope that what I worked on was useful to the war effort; they told me that it was.
Isaac Asimov • I, Asimov: A Memoir
It is the physicists who have been thrown most violently off stride, who have left academic pursuits for the making of strange destructive gadgets, who have had to devise new methods for their unanticipated assignments. They have done their part on the devices that made it possible to turn back the enemy, have worked in combined effort with the... See more
As We May Think
It was while the Potsdam conference was taking place that Eisenhower first learned of the atomic bomb.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
In this way, the military gained the technology it needed to fight the Cold War. Scientists and other scholars had the opportunity to pursue research they otherwise could not have done. Corporations received government contracts and the opportunity to repurpose technology for the public. Yet it was the government that shaped the evolution of
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