| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 456 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology |
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Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Science in the origins of the Cold War / Naomi Oreskes -- Atomic tracings: radioisotopes in biology and medicine / Angela N.H. Creager -- Self-reliant science: the impact of the Cold War on science in socialist China / Sigrid Schmalzer -- From the end of the world to the age of the earth: the Cold War development of isotope geochemistry at the University of Chicago and Caltech / Matthew Shindell -- Changing the mission: from the Cold War to climate change / Naomi Oreskes -- Fighting each other: the N-1, Soviet big science, and the Cold War at home / Asif Siddiqi -- Embedding the national in the global: US-French relationships in space science and rocketry in the 1960s / John Krige -- Bringing NASA back to earth: a search for relevance during the Cold War / Erik M. Conway -- Calclulating times: radar ballistic missiles, and Einstein's relativity / Benjamin Wilson and David Kaiser -- Defining (scientific) direction: Soviet nuclear physics and reactor engineering during the Cold War / Sonja D. Schmid -- The Cold War and the reshaping of transnational science in China / Zuoyue Wang -- When Structure met Sputnik: on the Cold War origins of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions / George Reisch -- Big science and "Big science studies" in the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War / Elena Aronova. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Technology and state.
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Science and state.
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Security, International.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Science and state. (OCoLC)fst01108536
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Security, International. (OCoLC)fst01110895
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Technology and state. (OCoLC)fst01145265
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects.
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| Added Author |
Oreskes, Naomi, editor.
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Krige, John, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Science and technology in the global cold war. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014] 9780262027953 (DLC) 2014009830 (OCoLC)878050740 |
| ISBN |
9780262326100 (electronic bk.) |
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0262326108 (electronic bk.) |
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