Oral history interview with Sam B. Treiman, 1986 December 18.

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Oral history interview with Sam B. Treiman, 1986 December 18.

Education at Northwestern University and University of Chicago (Enrico Fermi); membership in Federation of American Scientists (FAS); founding member of JASON. Discussion of the beginnings of JASON (project 137); Wheeler's initiation laboratory, and Marvin Goldberger's (et al.) plan for a private consulting firm. Goldberger becomes the first chairman. Early JASON activities; Treiman's JASON activities in the first decade; reasons for leaving JASON in 1968. Rejoins JASON in 1979; extensive remarks on the changes within and around JASON.

Preliminary transcript, 55 p.

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