Cold War Science and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-26421-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 293 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 561 g

Reihe: History of Modern Science

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, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dongen, Jeroen van

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Ost-West Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables

Note on Contributors

Introduction

PART 1 Secrecy and Science

1 Scientists, Secrecy, and Scientific Intelligence: The Challenges of International Science in Cold War America

Ronald E. Doel

2 A ‘Need-To-Know-More’ Criterion? Science and Information Security at NATO during the Cold War

Simone Turchetti

3 A Transnational Approach to US Nuclear Weapons Relationships with Britain and France in the 60s and 70s

John Krige

PART 2 Dutch Perspectives

4 Putting a Lid on the Gas Centrifuge: Classification of the Dutch Ultracentrifuge Project, 1960–1961

Abel Streefland

5 Quid Pro Quo: Dutch Defense Research during the Early Cold War

Jeroen van Dongen and Friso Hoeneveld

6 Chemical Warfare Research in the Netherlands

Herman Roozenbeek

7 The Fulbright Program in the Netherlands: An Example of Science Diplomacy

Giles Scott-Smith


PART 3 ‘Cold War’ Science?

8 The Absence of the East: International Influences on Science Policy in Western Europe during the Cold War

David Baneke

9 Colonial Crossings: Social Science, Social Knowledge, and American Power from the Nineteenth Century to the Cold War

Jessica Wang

PART 4 Scientific Hubris

10 Cold War Atmospheric Sciences in the United States: From Modeling to Control

Kristine C. Harper

11 Small State versus Superpower: Science and Geopolitics in Greenland in the Early Cold War

Matthias Heymann, Henry Nielsen, Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen and Henrik Knudsen

12 The Ford Foundation and the Measurement of Values

Paul Erickson

Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Jeroen van Dongen (Ph.D. 2002, Amsterdam) is Professor of History of Science at the University of Amsterdam. He also teaches at Utrecht University and is the author of Einstein’s Unification (Cambridge UP, 2010).