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