Introduction
Author(s)
Heyck, Hunter
Kaiser, David I
Date Issued
June 2010
Journal
Isis
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Citation
Heyck, Hunter, and David Kaiser. “Introduction.” Isis, vol. 101, no. 2, June 2010, pp. 362–66.
Version
Final published version
Abstract
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War looks ever more like a slice of history rather than a contemporary reality. During those same twenty years, scholarship on science, technology, and the state during the Cold War era has expanded dramatically. Building on major studies of physics in the American context-often couched in terms of "big science"-recent work has broached scientific efforts in other domains as well, scrutinizing Cold War scholarship in increasingly international and comparative frameworks. The essays in this Focus section take stock of current thinking about science and the Cold War, revisiting the question of how best to understand tangled (and sometimes surprising) relationships between government patronage and the world of ideas. © 2010 by The History of Science Society.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1086/653097
