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Cold War science and the transatlantic circulation of knowledge
Title
Cold War science and the transatlantic circulation of knowledge / edited by Jeroen van Dongen ; associate editors, Frisco Hoeneveld, Abel Streefland.
ISBN
9789004264212 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9789004264229 (e-book)
Publication
Leiden : Brill, [2015]
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©2015
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1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrations.
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Summary
"Cold War Science and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge delves into how the Cold War, as a global phenomenon, shaped local conditions and decisions for science in light of US-Europe relationships. The articles in this volume, edited by Jeroen van Dongen (University of Amsterdam & Utrecht University), show how the Western network in which science was circulated and produced was strongly conditioned by the state and its international relations. The workings of secrecy, the consequences of US hegemony and decolonization, and the ambitions of post-war recovery attempts were all mediated through the interference of the state and through its relative position in the network. At the same time, hubristic expectations prefigured in the state's relation to science"--Provided by publisher.
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Print version: Cold War science and the transatlantic circulation of knowledge. Leiden : Brill, [2015] History of science and medicine library ; volume 51
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 28, 2020
Series
History of science and medicine library, volume 51
History of modern science ; volume 1
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part 1. Secrecy and science
Scientists, secrecy, and scientific intelligence : the challenges of international science in Cold War America / Ronald E. Doel
A "need-to-know-more" criterion? : science and information security at NATO during the Cold War / Simone Turchetti
A transnational approach to US nuclear weapons relationships with Britain and France in the 60s and 70s / John Krige
Part 2. Dutch perspectives
Putting a lid on the gas centrifuge : classification of the Dutch ultracentrifuge project, 1960-1961 / Abel Streefland
Quid pro quo : Dutch defense research during the early Cold War / Joroen van Dongen and Friso Hoeneveld
Chemical warfare research in the Netherlands / Herman Roozenbeek
The Fulbright Program in the Netherlands : an example of science diplomacy / Giles Scott-Smith
Part 3. "Cold War" science?
The absence of the East : international influences on science policy in Western Europe during the Cold War / David Baneke
Colonial crossings : social science, social knowledge, and American power from the nineteenth century to the Cold War / Jessica Wang
Part 4. Scientific hubris
Cold War atmospheric sciences in the United States : from modeling to control / Kristine C. Harper
Small state versus superpower : science and geopolitics in Greenland in the early Cold War / Matthias Heymann, Henry Nielsen, Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen and Henrik Knudsen
The Ford Foundation and the measurement of values / Paul Erickson
Index of names.
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