By Naomi Oreskes
The chilly struggle interval observed a dramatic enlargement of state-funded technological know-how and know-how examine. executive and army patronage formed chilly warfare technoscientific practices, implementing equipment that have been venture orientated, staff dependent, and topic to national-security regulations. those adjustments affected not only the palms race and the gap race but in addition examine in agriculture, biomedicine, laptop technology, ecology, meteorology, and different fields. This quantity examines technological know-how and know-how within the context of the chilly warfare, contemplating no matter if the hot associations and institutional preparations that emerged globally restricted technoscientific inquiry or provided higher possibilities for it. The participants locate that regardless of the specific technology, and regardless of the political approach within which that technological know-how used to be working, the data that used to be produced bore a few relation to the ambitions of the countryside. those targets various from state to country; guns learn used to be emphasised within the usa and the Soviet Union, for instance, yet in France and China clinical independence and self-reliance ruled. The individuals additionally deliberate to what quantity the adjustments to technology and expertise practices during this period have been produced through the categorical politics, anxieties, and aspirations of the chilly War.
ContributorsElena Aronova, Erik M. Conway, Angela N. H. Creager, David Kaiser, John Krige, Naomi Oreskes, George Reisch, Sigrid Schmalzer, Sonja D. Schmid, Matthew Shindell, Asif A. Siddiqi, Zuoyue Wang, Benjamin Wilson
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932 micrograms of a mixture of plutonium-238 and plutonium-239. He was later found to have a gastric ulcer rather than cancer. 65 Few of the patients injected with plutonium seem to have been informed of their exposure or their status as research subjects. How did leading researchers in the medical application of radioisotopes end up conducting these experiments for the military? ”66 Clearly these wartime studies differed in crucial ways from those that went before—the selection of terminally ill patients as subjects signaled their potential danger.
70. , 264. 71. Forman, “Behind Quantum Electronics,” 152. 2 Atomic Tracings: Radioisotopes in Biology and Medicine Angela N. H. Creager There are three aspects to the use of atomic energy. Of these, the military aspect is familiar and has been discussed several times in these pages. … The use of radioactive isotopes both directly and for research may well be the most important application of atomic energy in the long run. However, this second aspect of atomic energy does not involve large expenditures of funds or great concentration of technological effort.
President Dwight D. flash=true&doc=90). 16. “Dwight D. _Eisenhower/). 17. LaFeber, America, Russia, 1. 26 Oreskes 18. Michael Gordin has recently emphasized that many “national” nuclear weapons programs were actually cooperative endeavors; for example, the Manhattan Project involved British and Canadian cooperation and many European émigré scientists. (See Gordin, Red Cloud at Dawn, esp. introduction and p. ) On the compunction felt by other nations to “be nuclear,” see Gabrielle Hecht, The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (MIT Press, 1998); Hecht, Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade (MIT Press, 2012).