Science, Technology and the Military

ISBN-13: 9789027727831 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 288 str.

Everett Mendelsohn; Merritt Roe Smith; Peter Weingart

Spis treści

III Transformation of Industry and Medicine.- The Role of the Military in the Electrification of Russia 1870–1890.- World War II and the Transformation of the American Chemical Industry.- Between Cowardice and Insanity: Shellshock and the Legitimation of the Neuroses in Great Britain.- IV Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power.- The Development of the First Atomic Bomb in the USSR.- ‘Over My Dead Body’: James Bryant Conant and the Hydrogen Bomb.- A Crystal Ball in the Shadows of Nuremberg and Hiroshima: The Ethical Debate Over Human Experimentation to Develop a Nuclear Powered Bomber, 1946–1951.- V R&D: Military, Industry and the Academy.- An Analytical Look at R&D and the Arms Race.- The Government of Military R&D in Britain.- The Government of Military R&D: A Comparative Perspective.- The Making of an Entrepreneurial University: The Traffic Among M.I.T. and the Industry and the Military, 1860–1960.

O autorze

Peter Weingart lehrt Wissenschaftssoziologie und ist Direktor des Instituts für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung an der Universität Bielefeld.