Book ID: CBB000951141

In Sputnik's Shadow: The President's Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America (2008)

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Wang, Zuoyue (Author)


Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 2008
Language: English


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: xix + 454 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index

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Review Hecht, David (2009) Review of "In Sputnik's Shadow: The President's Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America". Technology and Culture (p. 944). unapi

Review DeVorkin, David H. (2010) Review of "In Sputnik's Shadow: The President's Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 268). unapi

Essay Review Hamblin, Jacob Darwin (2010) Science and Technology for Every Man, Woman, and Child. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 259-267). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Oreskes, Naomi
Barth, Kai-Henrik
Bruno, Laura A.
Düppe, Till
Heyck, Hunter
Kaiser, David Isaac
Journals
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Acta Astronautica
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Journal of American History
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Cornell University Press
Harvard University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
The MIT Press
University of Alabama Press
Concepts
Cold War
Science and government
Science and politics
Science and war; science and the military
Public policy
Universities and colleges
People
DuBridge, Lee
Fowler, William A.
Huxley, Aldous
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Huxley, Julian Sorell
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
China
East Germany
India
Wisconsin (U.S.)
Institutions
California Institute of Technology
Project Vista
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
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