Friday, December 5, 2014

STEM in the Pentagon

From a profile of the new Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, that was presented in a New York Times article:

"“In Ash you have a poster child for the guy who discovers that science and technology are the major drivers for some of the most important events in international affairs, and sometimes are the sources of the solutions,” said Graham Allison, who recruited Mr. Carter in the early 1980s to come to the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School. “Here was a guy with a physics background who was fascinated by ballistic missile defense.""

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