Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

It seems like a jump from the bionomists’ peace advocacy to their employment as military contractors in a march that culminated in nuclear war, but not from the perspective of the American blood-nation, as Jordan conceived of it. In both cases they were trying to protect the country’s genetic future as best they saw fit, whether by peace or by bomb. But Terman and his team didn’t know anything about bombs. To win the wars of the future, they needed to find the American geniuses of tomorrow, today.