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for Foreign Policy;" "The Oceans Fifteen and Fifty Years from Now;" 

 "Some International Aspects of Water Resource Development;" "Pollution 

 of the Environment;" and "The Rural to Urban Population Shift — A Global 

 Problem." 

 Primack, Joel and Frank von Hippel. Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political 

 Arena. New York, Basic Books, 1974. 299 p. 



"Citing the supersonic transport, the ABM, pesticides, and other examples, 

 two scientists argue that 'concerned citizens' should be skeptical of govern- 

 ment use of scientific advice unless the data are made available for independ- 

 ent verification; 'concerned scientsts' should not rest with writing advisory 

 reports for Washington but should carry their message to the public." (1) 

 ■"Science and Technology in Presidential Policymaking: Role in Foreign Policy." 

 Science and Technology in Presidential Policymaking: a Proposal. Report of the 

 Ad Hoc Committee on Science and Technology, National Academy of Sciences. 

 Washington, D.C., June 1974. In U.S. Congress. House, Committee on Science 

 and Technology, Federal Policy, Plans, and Organization for Science and Tech- 

 nology. Part II. Hearings, 93rd Cong., 2d sess., June and July 1974. Washing- 

 ton, U.S. Govt- Print. Off., 1974: 489-492. 

 ■"Science and the Foreign Service." Department of State News Letter, June 1968: 

 10-12. 



This article contains two views of the State Department's Scientific and 

 Technological Exchange Program, begun in 1966. One article, by Thomas 

 Wilson, described his participation as a State Department official in the 

 Cooperative Project Division of the Office of International Affairs, National 

 Aeronautics and Space Administration. The other article, by Thomas G. 

 Gabbert, describes his duty as an official of the Atomic Energy Commission 

 with the Office of Atomic Energy Affairs in the office of International Scien- 

 tific and Technological Affairs, Department of State. Both individuals had 

 similar observations about the program. In the words of Mr. Wilson: "This 

 brief . . . description gives an idea of the fluidity of the U.S. national 

 science policy situation and the consequent opportunities for suggesting and 

 vesting new ideas and policies. State's role touches each where international 

 activities are involved, and ... it is clear why we need more men and 

 women equipped to respond effectively to this challenge to our contemporary 

 international relations." 

 •"Science, Technology, and the Policy Process." In U.S. Congress. Senate. Com- 

 mittee on Government Operations. Organizing for National Security. Hear- 

 ings before the Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery, v. I. Washington, 

 U.S. Gov. Print. OS^., 1961, p. 237-411. 



Part 2 this volume of the Jackson Subcommittee hearings treats the 

 impact of science and technology on foreign and defense policymaking. 

 Policies and programs of the Departments of State and Defense, as well as 

 other facets of science policy are considered. Witnesses for this session of the 

 hearings included: Dr. James A. Perkins, Vice President of the Carnegie 

 Corporation; Dr. James B. Fisk, President, Bell Telephone Laboratories, and 

 Vice Chairman, The President's Science Advisory Committee; William H. 

 Pickering, Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Tech- 

 nology; Dr. Eugene P. Wigner, Professor of Mathematical Physics, Princeton 

 University; Edward M. Purcell, Professor of Physics, Harvard University; 

 and Dr. Herbert F. York, Director of Defense Research and Engineering, 

 Department of Defense. 

 Seitz, Frederick and Rodney W. Nichol.». Research and Development and the Pros- 

 pects for hiternalional Security. New York, Crane, Russak and Co., 1974, 74 p. 

 The authors "begin from the premise that American technological suprem- 

 acy which had developed throughout the post-war world has eroded, and that 

 our decision makers must coneequently select options in weaponry and basic ' 

 research imder constraints of scarcity. They are attempting to alter a climate 

 of opinion within both Congress and the Department of Defense, which, they 

 contend, has been hostile to Research and Development projects not specifi- 

 cally linked to operational missions. Investment in 'fullscale prototyping' 

 (including testing and evaluational stages), which is costly, would produce 

 long term economies by eliminating gross cost overruns and outright failures. 

 The authors regard the sector of R and D, if expanded beyond specific mis- 

 sions, as an enduring realm of Western superiority, presumably because the 

 very existence of a vigorous extra governmental scientific community is both 

 more innovative and more critical, thus more robust. ... In brief, Seitz and 



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