Though the Cold War ended long ago, the language of science and freedom continues to shape public debates over the relationship between science and politics in the United States. From the late 1940’s ...

Freedom of Science in America There is a present danger that American research may be stifled. In technical skill and inventiveness the United States has been pre-eminent; but for basic research in ...

If anyone deserves more than one biography then surely that honour should go to Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), the physicist who produced the most powerful explosion in the history of the world and 14 ...

In his hot seat on the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Henry DeWolf Smyth (author of the famed Smyth Report) has found time for reflection. He concludes in the current American Scientist that “in the ...