Zuoyue Wang

In Sputnik's Shadow

The President's Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Sputnik's Shadow traces the rise and fall of the President's Science Advisory Committee from its ascendance under Eisenhower to its demise during the Nixon years. Zuoyue Wang examines key turning points during the twentieth century and brings new insights to the intellectual, social, and cultural histories of the era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 688g
• ISBN-13: 9780813546889
• ISBN-10: 0813546885
• Artikelnr.: 26526103

Autorenporträt

Wang, Zuoyue

Inhaltsangabe

American public science
1863-1945 The origins of technological skepticism
1945-1950 Mobilizing science for the Korean War under Truman
1950-1952 Science and the national security state under Eisenhower
1952-1957 Eisenhower
Sputnik
and the creation of PSAC
1957 PSAC and the launching of NASA
1957-1960 Military technology
1957-1960 The search for a nuclear test ban
1957-1960 The politics of big science
1957-1960 The control of science policy under Eisenhower
1957-1960 Science at the new frontier under Kennedy
1960-1963 Responding to Rachel Carson's Silent spring
1962-1963 Testing the limits
1961-1963 "Scientists for Johnson
" 1964 PSAC
the Vietnam War
and the ABM debate
1964-1968 The politics of technological dissent under Nixon
1969-1973