The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford by Stuart W. Leslie
-- New Scientist
The Cold War and American Science
Summary
Focusing on MIT and Stanford, Leslie offers a critical look at American science in the making. He reveals a regrettable series of misplaced priorities and missed opportunities that have characterized the recent history of science and technology in this country.
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Table of Contents
A university polarized around the military; steeple building in electronics; military guidance and control; sonic boom; the power of the nucleus; accelerating physics; a matter of state; material science; the days of reckoning - March 4 and April 3.
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CIN0231079591A
9780231079594
0231079591
The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford by Stuart W. Leslie
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Columbia University Press
19940721
382
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