Cold War Science and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Note on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Secrecy and Science -- Chapter 1 Scientists, Secrecy, and Scientific Intelligence: The Challenges of International Science in Cold War America -- Chapter 2 A 'Need-To-Know-More' Criterion? Science and Information Security at NATO during the Cold War -- Chapter 3 A Transnational Approach to US Nuclear Weapons Relationships with Britain and France in the 60s and 70s -- Part 2 Dutch Perspectives -- Chapter 4 Putting a Lid on the Gas Centrifuge: Classification of the Dutch Ultracentrifuge Project, 1960-1961 -- Chapter 5Quid Pro Quo: Dutch Defense Research during the Early Cold War -- Chapter 6 Chemical Warfare Research in the Netherlands -- Chapter 7 The Fulbright Program in the Netherlands: An Example of Science Diplomacy -- Part 3 'Cold War' Science? -- Chapter 8 The Absence of the East: International Influences on Science Policy in Western Europe during the Cold War -- Chapter 9 Colonial Crossings: Social Science, Social Knowledge, and American Power from the Nineteenth Century to the Cold War -- Part 4 Scientific Hubris -- Chapter 10 Cold War Atmospheric Sciences in the United States: From Modeling to Control -- Chapter 11 Small State versus Superpower: Science and Geopolitics in Greenland in the Early Cold War -- Chapter 12 The Ford Foundation and the Measurement of Values -- Index of Names.

Cold War Science and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge shows how western science was transferred and produced in an international network that was conditioned by global power relations.

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