1 | Introduction | |
2 | Atomic diplomacy |
Gordin, Michael. Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780691128184. [Preview in Google Books] McMillan, Priscilla. The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race. New York, NY: Viking, 2005. ISBN: 9780670034222. Holloway, David. Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780300060560. United States Atomic Energy Commission. General Advisory Committee Reports on Building the H-Bomb, October 30, 1949.
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3 | McCarthyism and espionage |
Wang, Jessica. American Science in an Age of Anxiety. Durham, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780807824474. Kaiser, David. "The Atomic Secret in Red Hands? American Suspicions of Theoretical Physicists During the Early Cold War." Representations 90 (2005): 28-60. Wellerstein, Alex. "Patenting the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Intellectual Property, and Technological Control." Isis 99 (2008): 57-87. Hoover, J. Edgar. "The Crime of the Century: The Case of the A-bomb Spies." Reader's Digest 58 (May 1951): 149-68. Macrakis, Kristie. Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780521887472. [Preview in Google Books]
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4 | "How I learned to stop worrying" |
Ghamari-Tabrizi, Sharon. The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780674017146. [Preview in Google Books] Kirsch, Scott. Proving Grounds: Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780813536668. Eden, Lynn. Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780801472893. [Preview in Google Books] Mody, Cyrus C. M. "Book Reviews: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the Nuclear Reactor, the Computer, Ham Radio, and Recombinant DNA." Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 38 (2008): 451-461.
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5 | Big science, big classrooms |
Forman, Paul. "Behind Quantum Electronics: National Security as Basis for Physical Research in the United States, 1940-1960." Historial Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 18 (1987): 149-229. Lowen, Rebecca. Creating the Cold War University: The Transformation of Stanford. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780520205413. [Preview in Google Books] Rudolph, John. Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. ISBN: 9780312295011. [Preview in Google Books] Kaiser, David. American Physics and the Cold War Bubble. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, in preparation. Engerman, David. "Rethinking Cold War Universities: Some Recent Histories." Journal of Cold War Studies 5 (2003): 80-95.
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6 | Exports and imports |
Gerovitch, Slava. From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780262572255. Krige, John. American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780262612258. Krige, John, and Kai-Henrik Barth, eds. In Osiris, Volume 21: Global Power Knowledge: Science and Technology in International Affairs. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780226454047.
- - Hecht, Gabrielle. "Negotiating Global Nuclearities: Apartheid, Decolonization, and the Cold War in the Making of the IAEA." pp. 25-48.
- - Abraham, Itty. "The Ambivalence of Nuclear Histories." pp. 49-65.
- - W. Leslie, Stuart and Robert Kargon. "Exporting MIT: Science, Technology, and Nation-building in India and Iran." pp. 110-130.
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7 | Talking back, moving on |
Moore, Kelly. Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780691113524. [Sample from publisher: Chapter 1] Vettel, Eric. Biotech: The Countercultural Origins of an Industry. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780812220513. [Preview in Google Books] Turner, Fred. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780226817422. [Preview in Google Books] Kaiser, David. "How the Hippies Saved Physics." (paper in preparation).
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