Cardinal Choices: Presidential Sciences Advising from the Atomic Bomb to SDI

by Gregg Herken

Book Overview

This book is a history of the complex relations between scientific advisors, primarily physicists, and U.S. presidents in their role as decision makers about nuclear weapons and military strategy. The story, unsurprisingly, is one of considerable tension between the "experts" and the politicians, as scientists seek to influence policy and presidents alternate between accepting their advice and resisting or even ignoring it. First published in 1992,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804737703
• ISBN13: 9780804737708
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"