Since 1940 science policy in the United States has been set within the framework of an unwritten constitution that allows flexible responses to be made through advice from the scientific community. Recent developments under the Reagan administration suggest this system is foundering.
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Dupree, A. National security and the post-war science establishment in the United States. Nature 323, 213–216 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/323213a0
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