What Missions Might MRFM Serve?
Gen. George C. Marshall articulated perhaps the most compelling and enduring strategic vision of the missions that quantum microscopy might help serve. Marshall’s 1947 Marshall Plan Speech speaks to us today as strongly as ever: I need not tell you gentlemen that the world situation is very serious. That must be apparent to all intelligent people. I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation. Furthermore, the people of this country are distant from the troubled areas of the earth and it is hard for them to comprehend the plight and consequent reactions of the long-suffering peoples, and the effect of those reactions on their governments in connection with our efforts to promote peace in the world. From Marshall’s 1953 Nobel Prize speech: I would like to discuss … the problem of th
