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Science and Technology in the Global Cold War

Author : Naomi Oreskes
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026202795X
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Science and Technology in the Global Cold War written by Naomi Oreskes and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science. The Cold War period saw a dramatic expansion of state-funded science and technology research. Government and military patronage shaped Cold War technoscientific practices, imposing methods that were project oriented, team based, and subject to national-security restrictions. These changes affected not just the arms race and the space race but also research in agriculture, biomedicine, computer science, ecology, meteorology, and other fields. This volume examines science and technology in the context of the Cold War, considering whether the new institutions and institutional arrangements that emerged globally constrained technoscientific inquiry or offered greater opportunities for it. The contributors find that whatever the particular science, and whatever the political system in which that science was operating, the knowledge that was produced bore some relation to the goals of the nation-state. These goals varied from nation to nation; weapons research was emphasized in the United States and the Soviet Union, for example, but in France and China scientific independence and self-reliance dominated. The contributors also consider to what extent the changes to science and technology practices in this era were produced by the specific politics, anxieties, and aspirations of the Cold War. Contributors Elena Aronova, Erik M. Conway, Angela N. H. Creager, David Kaiser, John Krige, Naomi Oreskes, George Reisch, Sigrid Schmalzer, Sonja D. Schmid, Matthew Shindell, Asif A. Siddiqi, Zuoyue Wang, Benjamin Wilson

Cold war and hot physics

Author : Daniel J. Kevles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Cold war and hot physics written by Daniel J. Kevles and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 0544716248
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (447 download)

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Cold War and Hot Physics

Author : Daniel J. Kevles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Cold War and Hot Physics written by Daniel J. Kevles and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Competing with the Soviets

Author : Audra J. Wolfe
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421409011
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Competing with the Soviets written by Audra J. Wolfe and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A synthetic account of how science became a central weapon in the ideological Cold War. Honorable Mention for the Forum for the History of Science in America Book Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in America For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military engagement. The Cold War placed two opposite conceptions of the good society before the uncommitted world and history itself, and science figured prominently in the picture. Competing with the Soviets offers a short, accessible introduction to the special role that science and technology played in maintaining state power during the Cold War, from the atomic bomb to the Human Genome Project. The high-tech machinery of nuclear physics and the space race are at the center of this story, but Audra J. Wolfe also examines the surrogate battlefield of scientific achievement in such diverse fields as urban planning, biology, and economics; explains how defense-driven federal investments created vast laboratories and research programs; and shows how unfamiliar worries about national security and corrosive questions of loyalty crept into the supposedly objective scholarly enterprise. Based on the assumption that scientists are participants in the culture in which they live, Competing with the Soviets looks beyond the debate about whether military influence distorted science in the Cold War. Scientists’ choices and opportunities have always been shaped by the ideological assumptions, political mandates, and social mores of their times. The idea that American science ever operated in a free zone outside of politics is, Wolfe argues, itself a legacy of the ideological Cold War that held up American science, and scientists, as beacons of freedom in contrast to their peers in the Soviet Union. Arranged chronologically and thematically, the book highlights how ideas about the appropriate relationships among science, scientists, and the state changed over time.

Freedom's Laboratory

Author : Audra J. Wolfe
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421426749
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Freedom's Laboratory written by Audra J. Wolfe and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Closing in the present day with a discussion of the 2017 March for Science and the prospects for science and science diplomacy in the Trump era, the book demonstrates the continued hold of Cold War thinking on ideas about science and politics in the United States.

Hot Books in the Cold War

Author : Alfread A. Reisch
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155225230
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Hot Books in the Cold War written by Alfread A. Reisch and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reveals the hidden story of the secret book distribution program to Eastern Europe financed by the CIA during the Cold War. At its height between 1957 and 1970, the book program was one of the least known but most effective methods of penetrating the Iron Curtain, reaching thousands of intellectuals and professionals in the Soviet Bloc. Reisch conducted thorough research on the key personalities involved in the book program, especially the two key figures: S. S. Walker, who initiated the idea of a ?mailing project,? and G. C. Minden, who developed it into one of the most effective political and psychological tools of the Cold War. The book includes excellent chapters on the vagaries of censorship and interception of books by communist authorities based on personal letters and accounts from recipients of Western material. It will stand as a testimony in honor of the handful of imaginative, determined, and hard-working individuals who helped to free half of Europe from mental bondage and planted many of the seeds that germinated when communism collapsed and the Soviet bloc disintegrated.

Cold War, Hot Science

Author : Robert Bud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Cold War, Hot Science written by Robert Bud and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Sputnik's Shadow

Author : Zuoyue Wang
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813546885
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book In Sputnik's Shadow written by Zuoyue Wang and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sputnik's Shadow traces the rise and fall of the President's Science Advisory Committee from its ascendance under Eisenhower to its demise during the Nixon years. Zuoyue Wang examines key turning points during the twentieth century, including the beginning of the Cold War, the debates over nuclear weapons, the Sputnik crisis in 1957, the struggle over the Vietnam War, and the eventual end of the Cold War, showing how the involvement of scientists in executive policymaking evolved over time and brings new insights to the intellectual, social, and cultural histories of the era.

Cold War, Hot Science

Author : Robert Bud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War, Hot Science written by Robert Bud and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cold War, Hot Science presents an authoritative history of post-war British defence research as related to the establishments that now form part of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA)." "The agency includes such well-known centres as the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment at Malvern, and the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment at Porton Down. Collectively these have carried out a very high proportion of all the scientific research conducted in Britain since the war. Study of these vast, but traditionally secretive, institutions is vital to understanding science in post-war Britain."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Science, Cold War and the American State

Author : Allan A. Needell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135852790
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Science, Cold War and the American State written by Allan A. Needell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates how Berkner became a model that produced the scientist/advisor/policymaker that helped build post-war America. It does so by providing a detailed account of the personal and professional beliefs of one of the most influential figures in the American scientific community; a figure that helped define the political and social climates that existed in the United States during the Cold War.

Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004340173
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how Pugwash scientists established a role in conflict moderation, what held this project together and how state actors in East and West perceived their efforts, complicating existing narratives about “Pugwash” and challenging notions about the naivety of scientists.

The Hot 'Cold War'

Author : Vladimir Gennadyevich Shubin
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hot 'Cold War' written by Vladimir Gennadyevich Shubin and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magisterial analysis of human history, from the first hominid to the Great Recession of 2008. Written from the perspective of ordinary men and women.

Science, Technology, and Democracy in the Cold War and After

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science, Technology, and Democracy in the Cold War and After written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Power of Systems

Author : Eglė Rindzevičiūtė
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150170625X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Systems written by Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), an international think tank established jointly by the United States and Soviet Union in Austria in 1972, was intended to advance scientific collaboration. Until the late 1980s, the IIASA was one of the very few permanent sites where policy scientists from both sides of the Iron Curtain could work together to articulate and solve world problems, most notably global climate change. One of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War, this think tank was a rare zone of freedom, communication, and negotiation, where leading Soviet scientists could try out their innovative ideas, benefit from access to Western literature, and develop social networks, thus paving the way for some of the key science and policy breakthroughs of the twentieth century.

Flash Effect

Author : David J. Tietge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Flash Effect written by David J. Tietge and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Flash Effect, a book by David J. Tietge, documents the manner in which leaders at the highest levels of our political and cultural institutions conflated the rhetoric of science and technology with the rhetorics of religion and patriotism to express their policies for governance at the onset of the Cold War and to explain them to the American public."--BOOK JACKET.

Experts, Social Scientists, and Techniques of Prognosis in Cold War America

Author : Christian Dayé
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030327817
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Experts, Social Scientists, and Techniques of Prognosis in Cold War America written by Christian Dayé and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes how Cold War researchers used expert opinions to construct foreknowledge of geopolitical relevance. Focusing on the RAND Corporation, an American think tank with close relations to the armed forces, Dayé analyses the development of two techniques of prognosis, the Delphi technique and Political Gaming. Based on archival research and interviews, the chapters explore the history of this series of experiments to understand how contemporary social scientists conceived of one of the core categories of the Cold War, the expert, and uncover the systematic use of expert opinions to craft prognoses. This consideration of the expert’s role in Cold War society and what that can tell us about the role of the expert today will be of interest to students and scholars across the history of science, the sociology of knowledge, future studies, the history of the Cold War, social science methodology, and social policy.