Table of Contents

Introduction; 1: Radio, Aviation, and the Origins of a Technocratic Vision; 2: Mr. Berkner in Washington; 3: Radio Science and World War II; 4: Science and Post-war Defense; 5: Extending the Partnership; 6: Scientists, Project Troy, and the Direction of Cold War Strategic Planning; 7: Career Choices and the Korean War Panic Of 1950; 8: Continental Defense, Secrecy, and the Scientist's Role in National Security Planning; 9: Stretching the Coalition; 10: Expanding Federal Support of Private Research; 11: Berkner and the IGY; 12: IGY Satellites and the Launch of Sputnik; 13: Horizons or Limits

About the Author

Allan A. Needell

Reviews

...engagingly written in a narrative manner, following Berkner's career chronologically while carefully explaining the scientific, governmental and other contexts Berkner found himself in. - IEEE Newsletter No. 57, November 2001