How the NIH developed US scientists like Anthony Fauci and Nobel Prize winners during the Vietnam War – Interview with Raymond Greenberg

How the NIH developed US scientists like Anthony Fauci and Nobel prize winners during the Vietnam War – Interview with Raymond Greenberg

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Interview Timeline

Raymond Greenberg has spent decades in the field of medicine. He recently wrote a book on Nobel prize winners who worked at the National Institutes of Health during the Vietnam War. We spoke about the book, military medicine, WWII, the Vietnam War, and the process of getting the book published. Medal Winners (University of Texas Health Press, 2020)

0:52 – Ray talks about his interest in the history of Nobel laureates.

2:26 – Ray talks about the term “Yellow Beret”

6:30 – Ray talks about the research that these scientists worked on at NIH.

7:29 – Ray talks about the Naval Medical Hospital.

8:07 – Ray talks about Dr. Anthony Fauci’s connection to these programs.

8:44 – Ray talks about tropical diseases and war.

9:52 – Ray talks about the obligations these doctors had when drafted.

12:09 – Ray talks about the “golden age” of physicians doing research.

15:39 – Ray talks about the unintended effects of the draft in developing new scientists and medicine.

18:11 – Ray talks about Dr. Fauci’s involvement with anthrax issues after 9/11.

19:46 – Ray talks about alternatives the military created to the doctors’ draft including the Uniformed Services Medical School.

22:00 – Ray talks about how the book is divided into pre-NIH years, the time the scientists spent at the NIH, and then their Nobel prizes.

24:44 – Ray talks about medical advances made during the Vietnam War including rapid evacuation.

26:00 – Ray talks about how he researched the book including interviews with the Nobel prize winners.

27:52 – Ray talks about when people understood the nexus between NIH and the Nobel prize winners.

31:24 – Ray talks about how the end of the Vietnam War negatively affected the NIH.

34:20 – Ray talks about applications to the Uniformed Health Services.

36:20 – Ray talks about foreign doctors at NIH.

37:30 – Ray talks about Vietnamese scientists during the Vietnam War.

38:18 – Ray talks about the interviewing process.

38:56 – Ray talks about the winners’ feelings about having been in the program.

42:29 – Ray talks about the cultural benefits of working at the NIH during the Vietnam War.

45:26 – Ray talks about the purpose of the NIH and how it was expanded during WWII to develop combat advantages. One concern was German biomedical advances to create better fighters.

49:09 – Ray talks about how WWII was a major turning point in the development of smart warfare.

53:03 – Ray differentiates between doctors and scientist-doctors.

57:28 – More information on Ray’s can be found on the University of Texas Press website.

Links of interest

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https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/greenberg-medal-winners

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Cold War military history book – “Divided Allies” (Cornell University Press, 2019) – Thomas Robb interview

Dr. Thomas Robb is a historian who studies and teaches British and US military history. We spoke about his latest co-authored book on how the ANZUS and SEATO treaties were developed. Check out the book here.

0:44 – Thomas Robb talks about how he got into writing on Cold War Asia-Pacific military relations.

4:03 – Thomas talks about how he begins the book with WWII and moves into the Cold War chronologically.

6:38 – Thomas talks about Australia’s strong concern about tPacific regional security.

8:25 – Thomas discusses France’s decline and Japan’s importance.

8:48 – Thomas talks about West’s concern with Japan’s resurgence economically.

10:04 – Thomas discusses China’s role in the region.

11:50 – Thomas talks about the Soviet role in the Pacific region.

14:12 – Thomas mentions Soviet pilots in the Korean War.

14:52 – Thomas talks about economic versus national needs of the four nations involved.

16:26 – Thomas mentions complaints about ANZUS.

18:38 – Thomas talks about the approach to nuclear weapons.

21:21 – Thomas discusses the US need for the treaty.

22:03 – Thomas talks about the relative military strengths of the four nations negotiating the treaties.

22:27 – Thomas says NZ and Australia were diplomatically punching above their weight.

22:45 – The Philippines not included in ANZUS.

24:57 – Thomas talks about how each nation could militarily contribute to the alliance.

26:01 – A cordon defense would go nuclear.

27:59 – Thomas talks about western concerns that Japan would become communist.

29:05 – Japanese reparations are discussed.

29:45 – Japanese strategic value was shown.

30:59 – Thomas talks about the payment of German reparations after WWI and compares that to the idea of having Japan pay reparations.

32:55 – Thomas talks about British strategic goals and aliances.

34:00 – The US prodded Britain to drop japan as an ally.

34:57 – Thomas talks about Churchill’s sentimentality.

35:54 – Thomas talks about how domestic politics impacted these treaty negotiations.

37:12 – The public used an excuse to not legitimize some treaty negotiations.

38:50 – The Eisenhower library just released a bunch of previously classified documents.

39:42 – Thomas talks about the archives he used for his research including various Presidential libraries.

42:23 – Thomas talks about going to the Truman library.

43:52 – The UK was angry that Australia and New Zealand went off without them and joined the US.

47:54 – Thomas talks about the interplay of racial ideas influenced policy.

50:44 – Thomas talks about how some of the American negotiators had very intense military ideas.

51:25 – Some of the Americans seemed bonkers to the Australians in their goals.

53:47 – The British met with press barons to impugn the character of a foreign minister over ANZUS negotiations.

1:00:19 – Thomas talks about a new project to study the political economy of the US Civil War.

Links of interest

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https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501741845/divided-allies/#bookTabs=3

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