Science: We Want with the West .

'We Want with the West"

What had become of the technical brains of Nazi Germany, the scientists who tooled the Third Reich's production machine, fashioned the Luftwaffe's wings and designed V-1 and V2? This week the U.S. Army gave an answer. A few of them had been whisked off to the U.S.S.R., presumably to work in laboratory and shop as privileged guests. But many of them were in the U.S. They were guests, too, and at work.

Long before the invasion of Germany, the Army had learned which German scientists were important, and where most...