"Until the Nazi juggernaut rolling across Europe in the spring of 1940 had made this country look to its defenses, never before in history had the scientists of the United States been called upon in such members and for such varied applications of their special skills to military problems. Research and development organizations and war plants had taken scientists by the hundreds from the universities, colleges, and research institutions. Selective service rules, enforced by many conscientious people who lacked the imagination to see that a scientist working in a laboratory on a new explosive may increase the power of hundreds of men on the battlefield, had decimated student enrollments in science so that there was little hope for replenishing the supply of technical men. Many able research men, convinced that war was imminent, had enlisted voluntarily."
Footnotes, index, and glossary of acronyms.
Footnotes, index, and glossary of acronyms.
