Book ID: CBB001551121

Science and Technology in the Global Cold War (2014)

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Oreskes, Naomi (Author)
Krige, John (Author)
Oreskes, Naomi (Editor)
Krige, John (Editor)


The MIT Press


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: ix + 456 pp.; ill.
Language: English

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.

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Authors & Contributors
Gordin, Michael D.
Rispoli, Giulia
Olšáková, Doubravka
Wolfe, Audra Jayne
Wellerstein, Alex
Weiner, Sharon K.
Concepts
Cold War
Science and war; science and the military
Science and government
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Technology and war; technology and the military
Science and technology, relationships
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Greenland
Russia
Japan
Germany
Institutions
KGB
Project Vista
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
California Institute of Technology
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