Cold War science and the transatlantic circulation of knowledge / / edited by Jeroen van Dongen ; associate editors, Frisco Hoeneveld, Abel Streefland.
"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 & U...
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| Superior document: | History of science and medicine library, volume 51 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill,, [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History of science and medicine library ;
volume 51. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of 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.