Moon Over Manhattan

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Barack Obama, Acceptance Speech at the Democratic Convention, Denver, Colorado, 28 August 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/us/politics/28text-obama.html. Al Gore, ‘A Generational Challenge to Repower America’, speech at the DAR Constitution Hall, Washington DC, 17 July 2008, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071701896.html. Renewing America's Promise, the 2008 Democratic National Platform, 25 August 2008, http://www.democrats.org/a/party/platform.html See http://www.apolloalliance.org. John F. Kennedy, ‘Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs’, 25 May 1961, http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/JFK/003POF03NationalNeeds05251961.htm; For a detailed discussion of the roots and progress of the Apollo programme, see Walter A. McDougall, …the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age (New York: Basic Books, 1985). Ronald Reagan, ‘First Inaugural Address’, 20 January 1981, http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/speeches/first.asp. Ronald Reagan, ‘Address to the Nation on National Security’, 23 March 1983, http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/offdocs/rrspch.htm. Ronald Reagan, ‘State of the Union 1986’, 4 February 1986, http://www.presidential-speeches.org/State-of-the-Union-1986-Ronald-Reagan.php. Deborah D. Stine, The Manhattan Project, the Apollo Program and Federal Energy Technology R&D Programs: A Comparative Analysis, CRS Report for Congress RL34645 (Washington DC: Congressional Research Service, 24 September 2008), p. 7. Steven A. Hildreth, Ballistic Missile Defense: Historical Overview, CRS Report for Congress RS22120 (Washington DC: Congressional Research Service, 9 July 2007). For histories of the Manhattan Project see Stephane Groueff, Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb (London: Collins, 1967); Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986), chs 14–17. Stine, The Manhattan Project, the Apollo Program and Federal Energy Technology R&D Programs, p. 7. For discussion of the organisational factors key to DARPA's success, see W.B. Bonvillian, ‘Power Play’, The American Interest, vol. 2, November–December 2006. For a similar discussion of the Skunk Works, see Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos, Skunk Works (New York: Little, Brown and Co., 1994), ch. 16. Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, 6 June 1986, available at http://history.nasa.gov/sts51l.html. ‘Afternoon with Barack Obama’, Reno Gazette-Journal, http://www.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080115/ VIDEO/. Barack Obama, ‘Inaugural Address’, 20 January 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President_Barack_Obamas_Inaugural_Address/. Barack Obama, ‘Address to Joint Session of Congress’, 24 February 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-of-President-Barack-Obama- Address-to-Joint-Session-of-Congress/. Jonathan Chait, ‘TRB: Hurry Up and Waste’, New Republic, 4 March 2009, http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=943f400a-335b-4173-90c3- 3fa82fd12b8a. HR 364, 10 January 2007, http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR00364. The agency was established in August 2007 by the America Competes Act (PL 110-69), but not funded in FY2008. George Leopold, ‘Stimulus: Energy Department Scrambles to Build New R&D Agency’, EE Times, 23 February 2009, http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=214502434. President Jimmy Carter, ‘Address to the Nation on Energy’, 18 April 1977, http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3398; William Safire, Safire's Political Dictionary (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 436 Additional informationNotes on contributorsJeffrey MazoJeffrey Mazo is Managing Editor of Survival.