Essay | Winter 2020
The Science Before the War
How the technological feats of World War II grew out of curiosity-driven research
Mark P. Mills, a physicist, is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a faculty fellow at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. He is the author, with Peter W. Huber, of The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (Basic, 2005). He blogs regularly for Forbes.
His personal website is Tech-Pundit.com, and he tweets @MarkPMills.
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