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of Defense contractor headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. (25) The group reportedly originated during “Project 137", a 1958 conference involving, among others, economist Oskar Morganstern and physicist John Wheeler, who invited younger physicists along to familiarize them with military technical problems. The concern at the time was that most top-level scientific inputs were coming only from the older generation of scientists, most of whom had worked on the Manhattan Project. With the Cold...