Let Me Explain
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Let Me Explain

Eugene G. Fubini's Life in Defense of America

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eBook - ePub

Let Me Explain

Eugene G. Fubini's Life in Defense of America

About this book

There is no necessary relationship between fame and power, and great influence is often wielded in willful obscurity. So it was with the irascible, indomitable Eugene Fubini. A physics prodigy who fled Italy when the fascists came to power, his searing intelligence and relentless determination lifted him from obscurity to the highest levels of the Pentagon. Indifferent to anything but results, Fubini worked behind the scenes to shape the strategy and substance of his adopted country's post-World War II defense. Along the way he exerted enormous influence over the development of radar, the rise of the military-industrial complex, the Space Race, and many of the other signature events and movements of mid-twentieth-century American geopolitics.Forewords by Harold Brown, PhD, Former United States Secretary of Defense, and William James Perry, PhD, Former United States Secretary of Defense.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Foreword by Harold Brown, PhD
  8. Foreword by William James Perry, PhD
  9. 1 / Turin
  10. 2 / Gino and Eugenio
  11. 3 / Rome, Fermi, and Revolution
  12. 4 / Return to Turin, Engineering, and Ghi
  13. 5 / Escape to Paris
  14. 6 / Columbia Broadcasting, New York, and Betty
  15. 7 / Countermeasures and a Death
  16. 8 / Fighting for the Allies
  17. 9 / Babies and the Golden Era
  18. 10 / Committees, a Son, and the USD-7
  19. 11 / The Defense Department and Potomac
  20. 12 / The Defense Department and Intramural Conflicts
  21. 13 / IBM and Connecticut
  22. 14 / Vienna, Consulting, and Network Building
  23. 15 / The Harold Brown Era and the Defense Science Board
  24. 16 / FOFA/JSTARS, Arlington, and Slowing Down
  25. 17 / Sickness, Loss of Betty, David and Bertha
  26. 18 / William James Perry, the Fubini Award
  27. Epilogue
  28. Acknowledgments
  29. Index