American Science in an Age of Anxiety
Subtitle: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 9, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780807824474
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; History Of Science; Political ideologies; Political science & theory; Science funding & policy; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); Science; Science And Public Policy; History - General History; United States; Science/Mathematics; USA; History / United States / 20th Century; atomic age; history of science; Hiroshima; Nagasaki; Soviet Union; communism; American politics; loyalty clearances; House Committee on Un-American Activities; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Public Policy - General; 20th century; History; Science and state
First sentence: From the perspective of the present, the Cold War seems to have had a certain inevitability, but from the vantage point of the end of World War II, the future shape of American foreign relations and domestic politics was far from clear.