Contributor
Oreskes, Naomi, editor of compilation.
Imprint:Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Descriptionix, 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note:Science in the origins of the Cold War / Naomi Oreskes -- Atomic tracings : radioisotopes in biology and medicine / Angela N.H. Creager -- Self-reliant science : the impact of the Cold War on science in socialist China / Sigrid Schmalzer -- From the end of the world to the age of the Earth : the Cold War development of isotope geochemistry at the University of Chicago and Caltech / Matthew Shindell -- Changing the mission : from the Cold War to climate change / Naomi Oreskes -- Fighting each other : the N-1, Soviet big science, and the Cold War at home / Asif Siddiqi -- Embedding the national in the global : US-French relationships in space science and rocketry in the 1960s / John Krige -- Bringing NASA back to Earth : a search for relevance during the Cold War / Erik M. Conway -- Calculating times : radar, ballistic missiles, and Einstein's relativity / Benjamin Wilson and David Kaiser -- Defining (scientific) direction : Soviet nuclear physics and reactor engineering during the Cold War / Sonja D. Schmid -- The Cold War and the reshaping of transnational science in China / Zuoyue Wang -- When Structure met Sputnik : on the Cold War origins of The structure of scientific revolutions / George Reisch -- Big science and "Big science studies" in the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War / Elena Aronova.
Bibliography Note:Includes index.
