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Fascinating, disturbing. Science needs critics like Finkbeiner

now more than ever. (The New York Times Book Review)

A true story that reads like a Tom Clancy novel. (Wired)

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Ann Finkbeiner is a freelance science writer

who has written for Science magazine and contributed to

USA Today and the New York Times Book Review. She

runs the graduate program in science writing at Johns Hopkins

University.

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At a dinner honoring Freeman Dyson, Finkbeiner heard the

physicist allude to government advisors called "the Jasons," a

group little known except to Pentagon insiders. The first author to

devote a book to the Jasons, Finkbeiner explains that they are a

self-selecting cadre of scientists independent of the government

who evaluate military technologies at the frontier of physical

feasibility. Intrigued, Finkbeiner sought interviews with Jasons.

Some jovially consented, others refused, and two guardedly agreed

if identified as "Dr. X" and "Dr. Y." The reasons for anonymity are

emblematic themes in Finkbeiner's fascinating account: Dr. X didn't

want to reveal too much about the Jasons' secret work; Dr. Y didn't

want to be hassled by antimilitary zealots at her university. So

the dilemma between the "technically sweet," as Finkbeiner aptly

quotes Robert Oppenheimer, and the morally objectionable courses

through her account of the Jasons' brainstorming about weaponry at

annual summer retreats since their founding in 1960. Readers

interested in the politics of science will become deeply absorbed

in Finkbeiner's original organizational history. Gilbert

Taylor

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