1. This paper forms part of chap. 5 of Edgerton David, Warfare state: Britain, 1920–1970 (Cambridge, 2005). It was first given at the 1997 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Leeds, in a session celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Association. For press reports see the Times, 10 September 1997, Observer, 14 September 1997, and Nature, 18 September 1997. An earlier version of the paper has been published in Chinese in Dawie Fu (ed.), STS: Taiwan STS reader (2 vols, Taipei, 2004), i, 107–22.
2. Beer Samuel H., Britain against itself (London, 1982), 121–3.
3. The Two Cultures