"Pauling finally felt he was going to be able to do something positive to fight the Nazis, and he listened eagerly as a group of military officers presented the researchers with a wish list of needed breakthroughs, including new medicines, better explosives, and more accurate monitoring and detection devices."
Thomas Hager. Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling. 1995.

"Although the U.S. Navy argued over technical specification until the war was over and never became a major buyer, several hundred units were sold to the British navy. The machines was also used in aviation-medicine studies, industrial plants, and in the incubators of premature babies."
Thomas Hager. Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling. 1995.

"[In] America postwar scientists were showered with money and acclaim. They were the national heroes who had invented the rockets and radar and bombs that had helped the Allies win, and they were lionized during the euphoria that followed."
Thomas Hager. Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling. 1995.

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