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ost of the research for this book was conducted during a research
leave supported by Colby College, the Smithsonian National Air
M and Space Museum, the American Association for the Advance-
ment of Science, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars. Early versions of this work were presented at a
number of venues. I extend my profound gratitude to my hosts, sponsors, listen-
ers, and questioners.
Special thanks are due to Ralph Cicerone and Lee Hamilton and their staffs;
British Broadcasting Corporation filmmakers Fiona Scott and Weini Tesfu; 4th
Row Films producers and directors Robert Greene and Greta Wink; Wilson
Center Environmental Change and Security director Geof Dabelko, Wilson
Quarterly editor Steve Lagerfeld and assistant editor Rebecca Rosen, Wilson
Center press director Joe Brinley, and Wilson Center librarian Janet Spikes;
National Academy of Science archivists Dan Barbiero and Janice Goldblum;
Colby College librarians Susan Cole, Margaret Menchen, Darylyne Provost, and
Alisia Wygant Rizett; Len Bruno and the staffs of the Library of Congress, the