Science and technology in the global cold war /
Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
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Table of Contents:
- Science in the origins of the Cold War / Naomi Oreskes
- Atomic tracings: radioisotopes in biology and medicine / Angela N.H. Creager
- Self-reliant science: the impact of the Cold War on science in socialist China / Sigrid Schmalzer
- 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
- Changing the mission: from the Cold War to climate change / Naomi Oreskes
- Fighting each other: the N-1, Soviet big science, and the Cold War at home / Asif Siddiqi
- Embedding the national in the global: US-French relationships in space science and rocketry in the 1960s / John Krige
- Bringing NASA back to earth: a search for relevance during the Cold War / Erik M. Conway
- Calclulating times: radar ballistic missiles, and Einstein's relativity / Benjamin Wilson and David Kaiser
- Defining (scientific) direction: Soviet nuclear physics and reactor engineering during the Cold War / Sonja D. Schmid
- The Cold War and the reshaping of transnational science in China / Zuoyue Wang
- When Structure met Sputnik: on the Cold War origins of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions / George Reisch
- Big science and "Big science studies" in the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War / Elena Aronova.