Also, worth remembering that for his day job, Superman was a journalist. 

Re Eisenhower’s warning, it is eerily prophetic (in reference to a certain interloper on the political stage) to revisit the whole of it. Over a beachside lunch 25 years ago, this is how Herb York (Eisenhower’s science advisor) explained it to me:

“The Eisenhower farewell address is quite famous. Everyone remembers half of it, the half that says beware of the military-industrial complex. But they only remember a quarter of it. What he actually said was that we need a military-industrial complex, but precisely because we need it, beware of it. The other half: we need a scientific-technological elite. But precisely because we need a scientific-technological elite, beware of it. That’s the whole thing. It’s a matrix of four.”

“I asked him who do you have in mind for this scientific-technological elite and without any hesitation he said [Wernher] von Braun and [Edward] Teller. They were a great nuisance as far as he was concerned. Whatever they may have done, their constantly pushing and selling and over-selling, the charisma and the public attention, he just didn’t like that. He never mentioned von Braun and Hitler but maybe he had that in mind. I certainly did.”

—Herbert F. York,  La Jolla, CA, 6 February 1999.