| Description |
ix, 456 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm |
| ISBN |
9780262027953 hardback : alkaline paper |
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9780262526531 paperback : alkaline paper |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Naomi Oreskes -- 1. Science in the origins of the Cold War / Naomi Oreskes -- 2. Atomic tracings: radioisotopes in biology and medicine / Angela N.H. Creager -- 3. Self-reliant science: the impact of the Cold War on science in socialist China / Sigrid Schmalzer -- 4. From the end of the world to the age of the earth: the Cold War development of isotope geochemistry at the University of Chicago and Caltech / Matthew Shindell -- 5. Changing the mission: from the Cold War to climate change / Naomi Oreskes -- 6. Fighting each other: the N-1, Soviet big science, and the Cold War at home / Asif Siddiqi -- 7. Embedding the national in the global: US-French relationships in space science and rocketry in the 1960s / John Krige -- 8. Bringing NASA back to earth: a search for relevance during the Cold War / Erik M. Conway -- 9. Calclulating times: radar ballistic missiles, and Einstein's relativity / Benjamin Wilson and David Kaiser -- 10. Defining (scientific) direction: Soviet nuclear physics and reactor engineering during the Cold War / Sonja D. Schmid -- 11. The Cold War and the reshaping of transnational science in China / Zuoyue Wang -- 12. When Structure met Sputnik: on the Cold War origins of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions / George Reisch -- 13. Big science and "Big science studies" in the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War / Elena Aronova -- Concluding remarks / John Krige. |
| Summary |
"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." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Series |
Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
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| Library Class |
Gen Sci M25
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| Subject |
Technology and state.
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Science and state.
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Security, International.
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| Other Author |
Oreskes, Naomi, editor.
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Krige, John, editor.
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