Science, Technology and the Cultural Cold War in Asia

From Atoms for Peace to Space Flight
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-15328-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

Reihe: The Cold War in Asia

Tsuchiya presents a new insight into the political roles of science and technology during the Cold War era in Asia.

The Cold War was not only a battle of conflicting ideologies and economic systems, but also a competition of cultures and lifestyles, and a battle to win the hearts and minds of people in developing countries. Tsuchiya argues that science and technology were an integral part of how culture was deployed strategically. She discusses the 1950s and early 1960s: the Eisenhower and Kennedy presidencies in the U.S., and the decolonization and nation-building efforts in Japan, South Vietnam, Burma, and Indonesia. She also sheds light on the way U.S. technological aid programs such as Foreign Atoms for Peace, and the overseas information program were received by Asian leaders, technocrats, and scientists.

Provides valuable insight for scholars of Cold War History in Asia and US Foreign Policy.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moriguchi Tsuchiya, Yuka

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures

Acknowledgment

Abbreviations

1 Introduction

PART I

Cultural Cold War and Nuclear Energy

2 The Cultural Cold War and Nuclear Scientists: Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

3 “Foreign Atoms for Peace” and the Export of Research Reactors

4 International Students of Atomic Energy: the Argonne International School of Nuclear Science and Engineering

5 Contradictions in the Overseas Information Program: Nuclear Tests in the Pacific and Compensation Negotiation with Japan

PART II

New Development in the Overseas Information Programs

6 From Atoms for Peace to Science for Peace

7 Project Hope and Medical Aid Programs

8 Space Flight as a New Overseas Information Program

9 Epilogue

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Yuka Moriguchi Tsuchiya is Professor of History and American Studies in the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies at Kyoto University, Japan.