Goldberger, Marvin L.
Oral history interview with Marvin L. Goldberger, 1986 February 12.
Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller, and Harold Urey, and involvement in Manhattan Project; Oppenheimer case as exposure to science policy; Project 137 summer study of defense problems, 1958; Herbert York; establishment of JASON and Defense Department's response; JASON as training ground for President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) members; products and accomplishments (Nick Christofilos); science policy, advisory groups, and scientists' influence; ballistic missile involvement as PSAC chairman; relationship with the Navy; physicists' involvement in science policy; JASON members' benefit from consulting work; J. Keyworth; JASON's future; availability of JASON records; trouble with unclassified list of publications. Also prominently mentioned are: Harold Warren Lewis, Ronald Reagan, Kenneth Marshall Watson; and United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
Born 1922.
Christofilos, Nick
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.
Goldberger, Marvin L.
Keyworth, Jay
Lewis, H. W. (Harold Warren)
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Reagan, Ronald.
Teller, Edward, 1908-2003
Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-1981
Watson, Kenneth M.
York, Herbert F. (Herbert Frank).
JASON Defense Advisory Group
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
United States. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
Ballistic missile defenses -- United States.
Physics -- Military aspects.
Science -- Security measures.
Science and state.
Science consultants.
Oral histories. aat
Interviews. aat
Sound recordings lcgft
Transcripts. aat
Aaserud, Finn interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA