Trong thời gian khủng hoảng, họ đã ngay lập tức có sẵn. Khi một quả bom H đã vô tình bỏ ngoài khơi bờ biển của Tây Ban Nha, Alvin RV đang trên đường gần như cùng một lúc. Tôi sợ rằng có rất nhiều tinh thần sau chiến tranh đã bốc hơi trong những năm qua. Hasselmann: Chúng tôi đã nói trước đó của công việc liên quan đến Hải quân của bạn. | 12 Navy 93 meaningful advice. In times of crisis they were instantly available. When an H-bomb was accidentally dropped off the coast of Spain the RV Alvin was on its way almost at once. I am afraid that much of this post-war spirit has evaporated over the years. Hasselmann We have spoken previously of your Navy-related work. Can you try to summarize it Munk There was a progression from wave prediction for amphibious landings to participation in Bikini and Ivy Mike nuclear tests. As part of my fifty years of membership in JASON a small group of scientists and engineers advising the Department of Defense we contributed to the development of non-sound we called it un-sound methods of Anti-Submarine Warfare. We have spoken of Ocean Acoustic Tomography that has a bearing on Navy problems. von Storch Did this interfere with your University career of teaching and research Munk Not at all To the contrary I owe much of what I have been able to accomplish to this partnership with the Navy and with ONR in particular. And I have attempted to recognize this debt. When I received the National Medal of Science from President Reagan in 1985 Fig. I invited Adm. Brad Mooney then Chief of Naval Research to come with us to the White House. And in 1999 the then Chief of Naval Research Admiral Paul Gaffney came to Japan to participate in the Kyoto Prize award. Hasselmann I imagine that a significant fraction of the civilian oceanography community will not agree with you. They think it is healthier to maintain a sharp distinction between civilian and military activities in ocean research. At least that is certainly the case in Europe and particularly in Germany. Probably this is because in Germany we have a different history regarding the collaboration between science and the military. In America you have less stigma attached with the past. Munk This is the theme of a recent book on Oceanography and the Cold War by J. He argues that the close Navy-University cooperation .
