Strange Stability

The new statute would create a novel personnel category known as the “intermittent government employee,” distinct from the “regular,” full-time employee. Robert Oppenheimer, described an intermediate state between disarmament and an unrestricted arms race as “a scheme for arms control.”70 But the term was not widespread until the end of the 1950s—and then suddenly it was everywhere. APS-DEW American Physical Society records of the Directed Energy Weapons Study, 1983–1988, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library Presidential Archives. Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State.