Benjamin Wilson discusses his new book in a recent interview with The Harvard Gazette

Cold War arms-control pioneers perhaps weren’t peacemakers we thought they were 

The problem, according to Benjamin Wilson, was the chief proponents of that early brand of arms control, an elite group of science advisers, “wore a progressive face” but ended up “protecting existing structures and domestic arrangements, foreclosing the possibility of more radical transformations.”

That’s the argument Wilson, an associate professor of the history of science, makes in his new book, “Strange Stability: How Cold War Scientists Set Out to Control the Arms Race and Ended Up Serving the Military-Industrial Complex.”