Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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In 1934 the Air Ministry gave Tizard charge of a four-man committee to study British air defense. The group soon made a far-reaching recommendation: put every ounce of British brainpower into developing radar. Then Lindemann landed on the committee as Churchill's delegate. For a solid year...
At war's end a survey of actual strategic bombing damage proved Cherwell's estimate not five but ten times too high. Had Cherwell not won his way, argues Snow, "the war might have ended a bit earlier and with less cost."
Snow sees clear lessons: "It is dangerous to have a solitary scientific overlord" such as Lindemann was during the war. "It is especially dangerous to have him sitting in power, with no scientist near him, surrounded by politicians who think of him as all-wise and all-knowing." It is...
Future-Directed World. But why give scientists any political power? Because, says Snow, Western nations are "becoming existential societies-and we are living in the same world with future-directed societies." Snow says: "We seem to be flexible, but we haven't any model of the future before us...