The Endless Frontier: U.S. Science and National Industrial Policy (part 1)
Steve Blank
JANUARY 14, 2013
The material to make the bombs – Plutonium and Uranium 235 – were made by civilian contractors at Hanford Washington and Oak Ridge Tennessee. In exchange for federal science funding, universities became partners in weapons systems research and development. OSRD was essentially a wartime U.S. Large scale federal funding for U.S.
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