Science, Technology and the Military, 2 Vols. - Volume 12/1 & Volume 12/2

List of contents

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.

About the author

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

Product details

• Assisted by: E. Mendelsohn (Editor), Everett Mendelsohn (Editor), Merrit Roe Smith (Editor), Merritt Roe Smith (Editor), Merritt Roe Smith (Editor), P Weingart (Editor), P. Weingart (Editor), Peter Weingart (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2009
• EAN: 9789027727831
• ISBN: 978-90-277-2783-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Weight: 585 g
• Illustrations: 288 p. 5 illus.
• Series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook; Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general)