The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at Mit and Stanford

By Stuart W. Leslie

Book Overview

American science was as much the victim as the beneficiary of the Cold War. What science may have gained in funding, prestige, and political clout, it lost in independence and integrity. As one prominent scientist put it, the military bought American science on the installment plan, with fateful consequences for intellectual freedom. Military money and expectations blurred traditional distinctions between theory and practice, civilian and military, and claffified and unclassified, creating a new kind of American science that derived its character as well as its contracts from the Pentagon.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231079583
• ISBN13: 9780231079587
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher