Harold Leonard Nieburg (November 1927 – September 27, 2001) 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.
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.
He was considered an international expert on political conflict and the Cold War, and was a confidant of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Paul Simon.
He wrote numerous books, including Nuclear Secrecy and Foreign Policy (1964), Political Violence: The Behavioral Process (1969), and Culture Storm: Politics and the Ritual Order (1973).