1. Friedman T. L., The World Is Flat (Straus & Giroux, Farrar, New York, 2005).
2. Science Debate 2008 worked with Scientists and Engineers for America the AAAS the National Academies the Council on Competitiveness and other organizations to craft the top 14 questions the candidates should answer. Their answers can be found at www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=42.
3. The 1995 Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to Joseph Rotblat and to the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and in the longer run to eliminate such arms. Today the Pugwash mission is to bring scientific insight and reason to bear on threats to human security arising from science and technology and particularly the threats to humanity posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction (www.pugwash.org/).
4. Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future (National Academy Press Washington DC 2007).
5. “Waiving goodbye to hegemony,”;Khanna P.;New York Times Magazine,2008