Article ID: CBB000780219

Discursive Choices: Boycotting Star Wars between Science and Politics (2007)

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Description On the politics and scientific activism surrounding Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.


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Authors & Contributors
Bridger, Sarah
Benjamin W. Goossen
Johnson, Alison F.
Westwick, Peter J.
Weiner, Sharon K.
Wang, Jessica
Journals
Technology and Culture
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal of Contemporary History
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Diplomatic History
Publishers
University of Texas at Austin
University of Wisconsin Press
University of Massachusetts Press
University of California, Los Angeles
The MIT Press
Stanford University Press
Concepts
Cold War
Science and politics
Science and war; science and the military
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Political activists and activism
Government sponsored science
People
Sagan, Carl
Rabinowitch, Eugene
Pauling, Linus Carl
Kistiakowsky, George Bogdan
Wiesner, Jerome B.
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
Places
United States
California (U.S.)
Soviet Union
Los Angeles (California)
Russia
Wisconsin (U.S.)
Institutions
Strategic Defense Initiative
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Federation of American Scientists
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
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