Brookings Institution Press

Pasteur’s Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation

Over fifty years ago, Vannevar Bush released his enormously influential report, Science, the Endless Frontier , which asserted a dichotomy between basic and applied science. This view was at the core of the compact between government and science that led to the golden age of scientific research after World War II – a compact that is currently under …

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JFK’s Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and Sino-Indian War

Bruce Riedel provides new perspective and insights into Kennedy’s forgotten crisis in the most dangerous days of the cold war.The Cuban Missile Crisis defined the presidency of John F. Kennedy. But during the same week that the world stood transfixed by the possibility of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, Kennedy was also consumed …

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