Competing with the Soviets: Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America
Audra J. Wolfe, "Competing with the Soviets: Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America "
English | ISBN: 142140771X | 2013 | 176 pages | EPUB | 959 KB
English | ISBN: 142140771X | 2013 | 176 pages | EPUB | 959 KB
A synthetic account of how science became a central weapon in the ideological Cold War.
Honorable Mention for the Forum for the History of Science in America Book Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in America
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. 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.
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