Science and Technology in the Global Cold War
Oreskes, Naomi (Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University) / Krige, John (Kranzberg Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology)
The Cold War period saw a dramatic expansion of state-funded science and technology research. Government and military patronage shaped Cold War technoscientific practices, imposing methods that were project oriented, team based, and subject to national-security restrictions. These changes affected not just the arms race and the space race but also research in agriculture, biomedicine, computer science, ecology, meteorology, and other fields. T...