Harold L. Nieburg

Who was Harold L. Nieburg?

Harold Leonard Nieburg was an American political scientist, best known for his influential book on the military-industrial complex, In the Name of Science.

Born in 1927 in Philadelphia, he attended the University of Chicago, earning a Ph. B., A.M., and Ph.D. in political science. He served briefly in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War, reaching the rank of corporal, and as a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer and for the Chicago Sun-Times. Later he taught at Illinois State University, Case Institute of Technology, and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee before accepting a position at SUNY-Binghamton in 1970. He retired in 1995 to the Ft. Myers, Florida region.

He was considered an international expert on political conflict and the Cold War, and was a confidant of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Paul Simon.

He wrote numerous books, including Nuclear Secrecy and Foreign Policy, Political Violence: The Behavioral Process, and Culture Storm: Politics and the Ritual Order. He also wrote hundreds of scholarly articles. His most influential work was In the Name of Science.