Science and Technology in the Global Cold War

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Naomi Oreskes (Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University) John Krige (Kranzberg Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Science and Technology in the Global Cold War

Naomi Oreskes (Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University), John Krige (Kranzberg Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology), Naomi Oreskes (Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University) , Angela N. H. Creager (Princeton University)

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English

Massachusetts Inst of Tec
31 October 2014

Mathematics & Sciences; Impact of science & technology on society; History of science; History of engineering & technology

Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology

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

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.

Contributors Elena Aronova, Erik M. Conway, Angela N. H. Creager, David Kaiser, John Krige, Naomi Oreskes, George Reisch, Sigrid Schmalzer, Sonja D. Schmid, Matthew Shindell, Asif A. Siddiqi, Zuoyue Wang, Benjamin Wilson

Contributions by: Naomi Oreskes (Professor of the History of Science Harvard University), Angela N. H. Creager (Princeton University), Sigrid Schmalzer (Associate Director, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Edited by: Naomi Oreskes (Professor of the History of Science Harvard University), John Krige (Kranzberg Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology)
Imprint: Massachusetts Inst of Tec
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 744g
ISBN: 9780262526531
ISBN 10: 0262526530
Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Pages: 472
Publication Date: 31 October 2014
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. John Krige is Kranzberg Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology.