Courses:

Cold War Science >> Content Detail



Study Materials



Readings

Amazon logo When you click the Amazon logo to the left of any citation and purchase the book (or other media) from Amazon.com, MIT OpenCourseWare will receive up to 10% of this purchase and any other purchases you make during that visit. This will not increase the cost of your purchase. Links provided are to the US Amazon site, but you can also support OCW through Amazon sites in other regions. Learn more.

SES #TOPICSREADINGS
1Introduction
2Atomic DiplomacyAmazon logo Kevles, Daniel. The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America. 3rd ed. New York, NY: Knopf, 1977 [1978], chaps. 19-22 (pp. 287-366). ISBN: 9780394466316.

Walker, J. S. "The decision to use the bomb." Diplomatic History 14 (1990): 97-114.

Amazon logo Boyer, Paul. "'Some sort of peace': President Truman, the American people, and the atomic bomb." In The Truman Presidency. Edited by Michael J. Lacey. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. 174-202. ISBN: 9780521375597.

United States Atomic Energy Commission, General Advisory Committee report, 30 October 1949. Reprinted in Amazon logo The American Atom: A Documentary History of Nuclear Policies from the Discovery of Fission to the Present, 1939-1984. Edited by R. C. Williams, and P. L. Cantelon. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984, pp. 120-7. ISBN: 9780812279207.

Galison, Peter, and Barton Bernstein. "'In any light': Scientists and the decision to build the hydrogen bomb." Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 19 (1989): 267-347.

Amazon logo Holloway, David. Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780300060560.
3McCarthyism, Espionage, and SecrecyAmazon logo Wang, Jessica. American Science in an Age of Anxiety. Durham, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780807824474.

Amazon logo Schweber, Silvan S. In the Shadow of the Bomb: Bethe, Oppenheimer, and Moral Responsibility of the Scientist. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780691049892.

Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Soviet Atomic Espionage. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1951, pp. 1-37.

Hoover, J. Edgar. "The crime of the century: The case of the A-bomb spies." Reader’s Digest 58 (May 1951): 149-68.

Mullett, Shawn. "Intelligence files and the unlearning of atomic espionage: Joseph Weinberg and Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz." Unpublished manuscript, 2003.

Westwick, Peter. "In the beginning: The origin of nuclear secrecy." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 56 (Nov/Dec 2000): 43-49.

Amazon logo Gusterson, Hugh. "The death of the authors of death: Prestige and creativity among nuclear weapons scientists." In Scientific Authorship: Credit and Intellectual Property in Science. Edited by Mario Biagioli, and Peter Galison. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 281-307. ISBN: 9780415942935.

Kaiser, David. "Nuclear democracy: Political engagement, pedagogical reform, and particle physics in postwar America." Isis 93 (June 2002): 229-268.
4Big Science

Amazon logo Kevles. The Physicists. New York, NY: Knopf, 1977, chap. 23, pp. 367-92. ISBN: 9780394466316.

Forman, Paul. "Behind quantum electronics: National security as basis for physical research in the United States, 1940-1960." Historial Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 18 (1987): 149-229.

Kevles, Daniel. "Cold war and hot physics: Science, security, and the American state, 1945-56." Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 20 (1990): 239-264.

Amazon logo Galison, Peter. "Physics between war and peace." In Science, Technology, and the Military. Edited by Everett Mendelsohn, M. Roe Smith, and Peter Weingart. Vol. 1. New York, NY: Springer, 1989, pp. 47-86. ISBN: 9789027727800.

Capshew, James, and Karen Rader. "Big science: Price to the present." Osiris 7 (1992): 3-25.

Amazon logo Westwick, Peter. The National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947-1974. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003, pp. 1-42. ISBN: 9780674009486.

Kaiser, David. "Cold war requisitions, scientific manpower, and the production of American physicists after World War II." Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 33 (Fall 2002): 131-59.

———. "The postwar suburbanization of American physics." American Quarterly. Forthcoming, 2004.

Oreskes, Naomi. "Laissez-tomber: Military patronage and women’s work in mid-20th-century oceanography." Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 30 (2000): 373-392.

———. "A context of motivation: US Navy oceanographic research and the discovery of sea-floor hydrothermal vents." Social Studies of Science 33 (August 2003): 1-46.

Weart, Spencer. "Global warming, Cold War, and the evolution of research plans." Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 27 (1997): 319-356.

Jones-Imhotep, Edward. "Inscribing the North: Sovereignty, knowledge, and the panoramic ionogram." Unpublished manuscript, 2002.

Amazon logo Pestre, Dominique, and John Krige. "Some thoughts on the early history of CERN." In Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research. Edited by Peter Galison, and Bruce Hevly. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992, pp. 78-99. ISBN: 9780804718790.

Graham, Loren. "Big science in the last years of the big Soviet Union." Osiris 7 (1992): 49-71.

5Biology and Medicine: Beyond the Physics ModelAmazon logo Lowen, Rebecca. Creating the Cold War University: The Transformation of Stanford. Berkeley, MD: University of California Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780520205413.

Amazon logo Rudolph, John. Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002. ISBN: 9780312295011.

Rasmussen, Nicholas. "The midcentury biophysics bubble: Hiroshima and the biological revolution in America, revisited." History of Science 35 (1997): 245-93.

———. "Of 'small men,' big science and bigger business: The Second World War and biomedical research in the United States.” Minerva 40 (2002): 115-146.

Amazon logo Krementsov, Nikolai. The Cure: A Story of Cancer and Politics from the Annals of the Cold War. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2002, chaps. 3-5 (pp. 52-133). ISBN: 9780226452845.
6RAND Games and the Social SciencesAmazon logo Needell, Allan. "Project Troy and the Cold War annexation of the social sciences." In Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social Sciences during the Cold War. Edited by Christopher Simpson. New York, NY: New Press, 1998, pp. 3-38. ISBN: 9781565843875.

Hounshell, David. "The Cold War, RAND, and the generation of knowledge, 1946-1962." Historical Studies of the Physical and Biological Sciences 27 (1997): 237-267.

Ghamari-Tabrizi, Sharon. "Simulating the unthinkable: Gaming future war in the 1950s and 1960s." Social Studies of Science 30 (April 2000): 163-223.

Gerovitch, Slava. "'Mathematical machines' of the Cold War: Soviet computing, American cybernetics and ideological disputes in the early 1950s." Social Studies of Science 31 (April 2001): 253-287.

Mirowski, Philip. “Cyborg agonistes: Economics meets Operations Research in mid-century.” Social Studies of Science 29 (Oct 1999): 685-718.

Amazon logo Amadae, Sonja. Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2003, chaps. 1, 4, pp. 27-80, 156-75. ISBN: 9780226016535.

Cohn, Jonathan. "Irrational exuberance: When did political science forget about politics?" The New Republic 221 (25 Oct 1999): 25-31.

Solovey, Mark. “Project Camelot and the 1960s epistemological revolution: Rethinking the politics-patronage-social science nexus." Social Studies of Science 31 (April 2001): 171-206.

Amazon logo Light, Jennifer. From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780801874222.
7Challenges to the SystemAmazon logo Kevles. The Physicists. New York, NY: Knopf, 1977, Chaps. 24-5, pp. 393-426. ISBN: 9780394466316.

Wisnioski, Matthew. "Inside 'The System': Engineers, scientists, and the boundaries of social protest in the long 1960s." History and Technology 19 (2003):  313-333.

Amazon logo Leslie, Stuart. The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1993, chap. 9. ISBN: 9780231079587.

Amazon logo O'Neill, Dan. Firecracker Boys. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780312134167.

Amazon logo Kevles. The Physicists. 1995 preface on the SSC. New York, NY: Knopf, 1977, pp. ix-xlii. ISBN: 9780394466316.

Gusterson, Hugh. "Los Alamos: Summer under siege." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 55 (Nov/Dec 1999): 36-41.
8Legacies

Amazon logo Gusterson, Hugh. Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780520081475.

MacKenzie, Donald, and Graham Spinardi. "Tacit knowledge, weapons design, and the uninvention of nuclear weapons." American Journal of Sociology 101 (1995): 44-99.

Gusterson, Hugh. "A pedagogy of diminishing returns: Scientific involution across three generations of nuclear weapons science." In Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Edited by David Kaiser. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, forthcoming.

Slayton, Rebecca. "Speaking as scientists: Computer professionals in the Star Wars debate." History and Technology 19 (2003):  335-364.

Amazon logo Dalton, Russell, et al. Critical Masses: Citizens, Nuclear Weapons Production, and Environmental Destruction in the United States and Russia. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999, chaps. 2-3 (pp. 29-96). ISBN: 9780262041751.


 








© 2009-2020 HigherEdSpace.com, All Rights Reserved.
Higher Ed Space ® is a registered trademark of AmeriCareers LLC.