Competing with the Soviets Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America

Name: Competing with the Soviets Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America
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ISBN: 9781421407715

ISBN-10: 142140771X

ISBN-13: 9781421407715

Edition: 2013

Authors: Audra J. Wolfe

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For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military engagement. The Cold War placed two opposite conceptions of the good society before the uncommitted world and history itself, and science figured prominently in the picture. Competing with the Soviets offers a short, accessible introduction to the special role that science and technology played in maintaining state power during the Cold War, from the atomic bomb to the Human Genome Project.The high-tech machinery of nuclear physics and the space race are at the center of this story, but Audra J. Wolfe also examines…

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List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 1/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.42" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of Abbreviations


Introduction



The Atomic Age



The Military-Industrial Complex



Big Science



Hearts and Minds and Markets



Science and the General Welfare



The Race to the Moon



The End of Consensus



Cold War Redux


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Suggested Further Reading


Index