Oral history interview with Marvin L. Goldberger, 1986 February 12.

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Oral history interview with Marvin L. Goldberger, 1986 February 12.

Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller, and Harold Urey, and involvement in Manhattan Project; Oppenheimer case as exposure to science policy; Project 137 summer study of defense problems, 1958; Herbert York; establishment of JASON and Defense Department's response; JASON as training ground for President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) members; products and accomplishments (Nick Christofilos); science policy, advisory groups, and scientists' influence; ballistic missile involvement as PSAC chairman; relationship with the Navy; physicists' involvement in science policy; JASON members' benefit from consulting work; J. Keyworth; JASON's future; availability of JASON records; trouble with unclassified list of publications. Also prominently mentioned are: Harold Warren Lewis, Ronald Reagan, Kenneth Marshall Watson; and United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

Transcript, 12 p.

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