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Science and Technology in the Global Cold War (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology) by Professor of the History of Science Naomi Oreskes; John Krige is a business book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><b>Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.</b></p><p>The Cold War period saw a dramatic expansion of state-funded science and technology research. Government and military patronage shaped Cold War technoscientific practices, imposing methods that were project oriented, team based, and subject to national-security restrictions. These changes affected not just the arms race and the space race
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It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- Professor of the History of Science Naomi Oreskes; John Krige
- Publisher
- MIT Press; The MIT Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781322293981
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- History, Engineering, Economics
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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