The promise of the proministrative state: nuclear experts and national politics, 1945–1947

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That World War II and the ensuing cold war heated up the courtship between professionals and the federal government does not mean that external factors alone accounted for the new symbiotic relationship that emerged by 1950 – what I have called the “proministrative state.” The foundation had been laid in the interwar years. In the Progressive Era, four barriers prevented the flirtation from being consummated. By the eve of World War II, two of these obstacles had almost been surmounted.

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