Office Files

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Office Files

1957-1961

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/598742

Handwritten minutes, agendas, notes of annual meetings with President Eisenhower, correspondence, memoranda, calendars of documents, records of action, briefing papers, press releases, project reports, position papers, panel reports, and list of members and consultants. The materials are divided into PSAC meeting agendas and minutes; an alphabetical file containing primarily correspondence and memoranda; and a subject file made up primarily of correspondence. Among the individuals, organizations, and government departments having contact with PSAC were the National Academy of Science and its president, Detlev Bronk, the National Science Foundation and its director, Alan T. Waterman, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the Departments of State and Defense. Topics: science support of national security objectives; establishment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; missile development; satellites; testing of nuclear weapons; arms limitations negotiations; strengthening of science and engineering in the United States and allied nations; exchanges of scientific information with NATO counties; encouragement of basic research and graduate education in the sciences; space science; chemical research; nuclear research; high energy physics; oceanography; radio astronomy; creation of a Department of Science and Technology; budgetary problems of funding projects; competing with the Soviet Union in science and technology; PSAC administrative matters. Correspondents include: Alan T. Waterman, Detlev Bronk, and various members of the PSAC, such as Robert F. Backer, John Bardeen, Hans A. Bethe, Harvey Brooks, James B. Fisk, Edwin H. Land, Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, Emmanuel R. Piore, Edward M. Purcell, Isidor I. Rabi, Howard P. Robertson, Alvin M. Weinberg, Herbert F. York, Walter H. Zinn, and Jerrold R. Zacharias.

2.7 linear ft.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8239733

Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

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