Upon coming into office, the anti-nuclear zealots put into senior Administration posts in the Department of Energy, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, State andDefense Departments, Office of ScienceandTechnology Policy andNational Security Council saw to it that the United States would forego any further testing.
With an even greater vision at the end of the war, Bush portended that such national expenditures in scienceandtechnology would have broad, non-defense implications for a national economy.