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Science and Technology in the Global Cold War.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (467 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262326100
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Science and Technology in the Global Cold WarDDC classification:
  • 338.926
LOC classification:
  • T14.5
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Science in the Origins of the Cold War -- 2 Atomic Tracings -- 3 Self-Reliant Science -- 4 From the End of the World to the Age of the Earth -- 5 Changing the Mission -- 6 Fighting Each Other -- 7 Embedding the National in the Global -- 8 Bringing NASA Back to Earth -- 9 Calculating Times -- 10 Defining (Scientific) Direction -- 11 The Cold War and the Reshaping of Transnational Science in China -- 12 When Structure Met Sputnik -- 13 Big Science and "Big Science Studies" in the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War -- Concluding Remarks -- About the Authors -- Index.
Summary: Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Science in the Origins of the Cold War -- 2 Atomic Tracings -- 3 Self-Reliant Science -- 4 From the End of the World to the Age of the Earth -- 5 Changing the Mission -- 6 Fighting Each Other -- 7 Embedding the National in the Global -- 8 Bringing NASA Back to Earth -- 9 Calculating Times -- 10 Defining (Scientific) Direction -- 11 The Cold War and the Reshaping of Transnational Science in China -- 12 When Structure Met Sputnik -- 13 Big Science and "Big Science Studies" in the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War -- Concluding Remarks -- About the Authors -- Index.

Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.

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