Science and technology in the global cold war / edited by Naomi Oreskes and John Krige.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Calclulating 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.

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Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.

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