Book Review

Michelson was a Research Associate at the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center: his underlying purpose in this book is to paint a picture of that project over its lifetime. So how to grasp the purposes of the Wilson Center and the Pew Charitable Trust when the PEN project was created? Its mission statement describes this clearly as follows: “Our goal is to inform the debate and to create an active public and policy dialogue. It is not to advocate either for or against, particular nanotechnologies. We seek to ensure that as these technologies are developed, potential human health and environmental risks are anticipated, properly understood, and effectively managed”.