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Titre(s) : Cold War science and the transatlantic circulation of knowledge [Texte imprimé] / edited by Jeroen van Dongen ; associate editors Friso Hoeneveld, Abel Streefland
Publication : Leiden : Brill, cop. 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-293 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : History of modern science ; volume 1
Lien à la collection : History of modern science
History of science and medicine library
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
"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 惭recht 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
Collection principale : History of science and medicine library, ISSN 1872-0684. Numérotation
dans la collection principale : volume 51
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Dongen, Jeroen van (1974-....). Éditeur scientifique
Hoeneveld, Friso (1970-....). Collaborateur
Streefland, Abel. Collaborateur
Sujet(s) : Guerre froide -- Sciences
Politique scientifique -- 1945-1990
Relations internationales -- 1945-1989
Indice(s) Dewey :
327.090 45 (23e éd.) = Relations internationales - 1950-1959
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789004264212. - ISBN 9004264213 (rel.). - ISBN 9789004264229 (e-book)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44523576n
Notice n° :
FRBNF44523576
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