Competing with the Soviets: Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America

by Audra J. Wolfe

Book Overview

A synthetic account of how science became a central weapon in the ideological Cold War.

Honorable Mention for the Forum for the History of Science in America Book Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in America

For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military engagement. The Cold War placed two...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421407698
• ISBN13: 9781421407692
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"