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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 t
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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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