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Advertising material received in November and December from the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), who are currently trying to increase their membership and raise funds, quotes the 6 May report of the prominent FAS Ad Hoc Committee on Military Research and Development (1). This report was also the subject of a news story in Science. The passage quoted in the advertisement reads, “This entire episode [the presentations of John S. Foster, the Defense Department’s director of research and engineering, to various congressional committees] has been a classical numbers game featuring selective disclosure, questionable assumptions, exaggeratedly precise estimates, misleading language, and alarmist, non sequitur conclusions.”
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Is There an R & D Gap? (Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Military Research and Development of the Federation of American Scientists, Washington, D.C., 1971).
U.S. Senate, Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Research and Development, Hearings on Authorization for Military Procurement (92nd Congress, 1st session, 1971).
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Wigner, E.P., Adair, R.K. (1998). Military Research and Development. In: Mehra, J. (eds) Socio-Political Reflections and Civil Defense. The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner, vol B / 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58862-4_21
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