Soviet Science and Engineering in the Shadow of the Cold War

ISBN-13: 9780367585228 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 206 str.

Hiroshi Ichikawa

Opis

Ichikawa analyses the complicated interactions among various factors, including the indigenous contradictions in the historical development of science in the Soviet Union; conflicts among the related interest groups; relationships with the political leadership and the military, the role of ideology; and others.

Spis treści

Preface

Introduction

PART.I. What Drove the Scientists to the Cold War?: In the Case of Physicists.

Chapter 1: "Jealousy" and "Discord:" The Conflicts among Physicists during the War.

Chapter 2. "Ideology" or "Harassment"? : "The Physics Conference" Unopened.

PART II, Some Aspects of the Soviet Cold War Research and Developments.

Chapter 3. "Foresight" or "Survival"? : Rocket Development and the Ministry of Armament

Chapter 4. Plunder of Technology: Jet Plane Development and German Technology

Chapter 5. "Concealed Rivalry": The Early Days of Computer Development.

PART III. "Hope" and "Anxiety:" Soviet Science at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age.

Chapter 6, Obninsk, 1955: The World’s First Nuclear Power Plant and "The Atomic Diplomacy" by Soviet Scientists.

Chapter 7. "A Double-edged Sword:" Radiation Studies and the Normalization of Biological Sciences.

Chapter 8. Anna Vasil’evna Kozlova (1906-19080): The Fate of the Data on the Casualties of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Bikini.

Conclusion

Index

O autorze

Hiroshi Ichikawa is Professor of the History of Science and Technology in the Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences at Hiroshima University, Japan