XI 



Chapter Six — Continued 



III. Determination of alternatives and enlargement of the scope of Tugo 



the issue 137 



Foreign area research coordination 137 



Subcommittee concern for the relationship of the social 



sciences and the Federal Government 137 



Assessment of the social science/Federal Government re- 

 lationship 138 



Congress 138 



Social science response 140 



Constructive criticism 141 



The Administration responds 143 



DOD and NAS 143 



State Department 144 



Other responses in the "Advisory Community" 144 



IV. Congressional response 14.5 



Fascell bills — Toward a national social science policy 145 



National Science Foundation 14.5 



NSF information assessed 146 



National Foundation for the Social Sciences 147 



Objectives 147 



Testimony received 148 



Federal support of social sciences 150 



Foreign area social science research 150 



Administrative mechanisms 151 



Responsibilities of social scientists in policymaking. _ 152 



The proposal for a Social Science Foundation 1,52 



Pro 152 



Con 153 



V. Consequences of Camelot for Government social science 153 



Military-sponsored foreign area research 153 



State Department response 153 



DOD response 1.54 



The social sciences and the Federal Government 156 



The proposal to create a National Foundation for the 

 Social Sciences, and amendment of the National 



Science Foundation 156 



Congressional stimulation of administration and legislative 



assessment of the problem 158 



Social science response 158 



Administration response 158 



Conclusion 159 



Chapter Seven — Congressional concern with the decline and fall of Mohole. 161 



I. Background of the Mohole issue 161 



The situation facing the earth sciences in 1957 162 



Evolution of Project Mohole 162 



Mohole's administrative growing pains 164 



Issues raised by the Mohole episode 167 



Relevance of the Mohole experience for the future 169 



II. The case in Congress 171 



Possible congressional response to AMSOC first feasibility 



report 171 



Congressional assessment following phase I success of 



Mohole 172 



Congressional review following ^lohole contract placement. 176 



The intermediate versus the ultimate drilling vessel 177 



NSF interrogation by Subcommittee on Science, Research, 



and Development 183 



Congressional action to terminate the Mohole project 185 



III. Conclusions 188 



Chapter Eight — The test ban treaty — A study in military and political 



cost effectiveness . 193 



I. Introduction 193 



Issues and consequences of the treaty 193 



Obstacles to acceptance of the treaty 194 



Considerations favoring approval of the treaty 196 



Assessment of the process of approving a weapons treaty 198 



