Science, Cold War and the American State: Lloyd v Berkner and the Balance of Professional Ideas
This book illuminates how Berkner became a model that produced the scientist/advisor/policymaker that helped build post-war America. It does so by providing a detailed account of the personal and professional beliefs of one of the most influential figures in the American scientific community; a figure that helped define the political and social climates that existed in the United States during the Cold War.
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- Full title :Science, Cold War and the American State : Lloyd v Berkner and the Balance of Professional Ideas.
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This book illuminates how Berkner became a model that produced the scientist/advisor/policymaker that helped build post-war America. It does so by providing a detailed account of the personal and professional beliefs of one of the most influential figures in the American scientific community; a figure that helped define the political and social climates that existed in the United States during the Cold War.
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- Publication Date:2012.
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- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:Hoboken
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (419 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781135852726, 1135852723
- oclc:ocn827206868
- LC Classification:Q143.B438
- Dewey Decimal:509.73
Table of Contents
1. Radio, aviation, and the origins of a technocratic vision -- 2. Mr. Berkner in Washington -- 3. Radio science and World War II -- 4. Science and post-war defense : 1945-49 -- 5. Extending the partnership : applying technocratic ideas outside of the military -- 6. Scientists, Project Troy, and the direction of Cold War strategic planning -- 7. Career choices and the Korean War panic of 1950 -- 8. Continental defense, secrecy, and the scientist's role in national security planning -- 9. Stretching the coalition : scientists and the Distant Early Warning Line -- 10. Expanding federal support of private research : the case of radio astronomy -- 11. Berkner and the IGY -- 12. IGY satellites and the launch of Sputnik -- 13. Horizons or limits.
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