Secret Science - Federal Control of American Science and Technology

Foerstel argues convincingly that federal control of science and technology is both a serious threat to democracy and a profoundly ineffective way to organize the scientific enterprise. Booklist required reading for anyone concerned with continued abuses of power by the military-industrial complex.

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List of contents

Science and the National Security State
National Security Controls on Science
Atomic Secrets
Cryptography: A Government Monopoly in Science
Not Quite Classified
The End of the Scientific Cold War
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

HERBERT N. FOERSTEL is the retired former head of Branch Libraries at the University of Maryland in College Park and is a current member of the board of directors of the National Security Archive at George Washington University. He is the author of Surveillance in the Stacks (Greenwood, 1991), Secret Science (Praeger, 1993), Banned in the USA (Greenwood, 1994), Climbing the Hill with his daughter Karen Foerstel (Praeger, 1996), Free Expression and Censorship in America (Greenwood, 1997), and Banned in the Media (Greenwood, 1998)

Product details

• Authors: Herbert Foerstel, Foerstel Herbert N.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.1993
• EAN: 9780275944476
• ISBN: 978-0-275-94447-6
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SCIENCE / Applied Sciences, SCIENCE / Research & Methodology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Research, United States of America, USA, Human rights, civil rights, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Freedom Of Information & Freedom Of Speech, Scientific research, Science Funding & Policy, Science funding and policy