Examples of Politics and Physicists

d3nat

(Note: This is probably the wrong place for this, but I wasn't sure where to post this)

What are some examples of when politics and physics research coincided or had strong direct impacts on each other?

For example:
Napoleon and Laplace/Poisson
Catholic church and Galileo
WW2 and the Manhattan Project

I'm just curious for some more examples.

Thanks

TomServo

Physics research for nuclear weapons continued to be a political controversy for decades after WW2. And there is the Space Race.

TheAbsoluTurk

WW2 Allied mathmeticians like Turing worked on decoding the German Enigma machine.

DennisN

Ancient History, Roman & Medievals:
Chariots, Greek fire, quicklime, missile/siege equipment like catapults, ballistas, trebuchets, mangonels. (I've played a lot of Rome & Medieval Total War ).

ImaLooser

Albert Einstein did a fair amount of fund raising for Israel.