
Space Policy Edition: JWST and the politics of mega-science (with Robert Smith)
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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Collaborating in the Cold War?
If the resources are available to through, in the us. Case, a democratic representative institute an, the scientific community almost had to reconstitute itself in a democratic fashion. To your point of what you'rejust say ing, to build a coalition of broadscale support to succeed in resourcing some of these ambitions. Is that unique to us or western democratic institutions, or do you think that's reflected more broadly in big science projects in other nations as well an other political systems? I think if we look outside the united states, then you have far more, at least in what you can call te say, the co war period, far more efforts to collaborate, because it's the fundamental
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