In Sputnik's Shadow The President's Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America

Name: In Sputnik's Shadow The President's Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America
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ISBN: 9780813546889

ISBN-10: 0813546885

ISBN-13: 9780813546889

Edition: 2009

Authors: Zuoyue Wang

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List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 8/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.20" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English

Zuoyue Wang is a professor of history at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.



List of Illustrations


Preface


Note to the Reader


Abbreviations Used in Text


Introduction



Prelude: Before Sputnik



American Public Science, 1863-1945



The Origins of Technological Skepticism, 1945-1950



Mobilizing Science for the Korean War under Truman, 1950-1952



Science and the National Security State under Eisenhower, 1952-1957



Ike, Sputnik, and the Rise of PSAC



Eisenhower, Sputnik, and the Creation of PSAC, 1957



PSAC and the Launching of NASA, 1957-1960



Military Technology, 1957-1960



The Search for a Nuclear Test Ban, 1957-1960



The Politics of Big Science, 1957-1960



The Control of Science Policy under Eisenhower, 1957-1960



The Politics of Technological Skepticism



Science at the New Frontier Under Kennedy, 1960-1963



Responding to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, 1962-1963



Testing the Limits, 1961-1963



"Scientists for Johnson," 1964



PSAC, the Vietnam War, and the ABM Debate, 1964-1968



The Politics of Technological Dissent under Nixon, 1969-1973


Epilogue


Conclusion


Appendix


Abbreviations Used in Notes


Notes


Bibliography


Index