The Cold War - Nuclear Fear | 3
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The History of Defense Research in the 1950s
Defense funding dominated several scientific fields including physics, electronics, aeronautics, and material science. About 80 percent of the federal R&D budget in the 1950s came directly from the Department of Defense. The University of California officially managed Los Alamos National Laboratory from the beginning of the Manhattan Project until 2006. It's not an exaggeration to say that defense projects created some fields of academic study out of whole cloth In the mid-1950s, the Air Force asked another MIT laboratory, the Lincoln Laboratory, to come up with a way to monitor and display radar information in real time.
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