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  • Greening the Alliance

    The Diplomacy of NATO's Science and Environmental Initiatives

    Following the launch of Sputnik, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization became a prominent sponsor of scientific research in its member countries, a role it retained until the end of the Cold War. As NATO marks sixty years since the establishment of its Science Committee, the main organizational force promoting its science programs, Greening the Alliance is the first book to chart NATO’s ... Leer más

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  • The Pontecorvo Affair

    A Cold War Defection and Nuclear Physics

    In the fall of 1950, newspapers around the world reported that the Italian-born nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo and his family had mysteriously disappeared while returning to Britain from a holiday trip. Because Pontecorvo was known to be an expert working for the UK Atomic Energy Research Establishment, this raised immediate concern for the safety of atomic secrets, especially when it became ... Leer más

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  • Science Studies during the Cold War and Beyond

    Paradigms Defected

    Edición de Elena Aronova, Simone Turchetti ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the ways in which studies of science intertwined with Cold War politics, in both familiar and less familiar “battlefields” of the Cold War. Taken together, the essays highlight two primary roles for science studies as a new field of expertise institutionalized during the Cold War in different political regimes. Firstly, science studies played a political role in cultural Cold ... Leer más

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  • Il caso Pontecorvo

    Nell'estate del 1950, Bruno Pontecorvo, un allievo di Fermi che durante la seconda guerra mondiale ha preso parte al progetto nucleare alleato, scompare all'improvviso. Il sospetto che sia fuggito in URSS fa temere che abbia portato con sé importanti segreti atomici, ma i diplomatici e i servizi di sicurezza occidentali minimizzano la defezione: Pontecorvo è solo un fisico teorico, non può essere ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

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  • Secret Lives of the Tsars

    Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia

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  • The Imitation Game

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  • Warped Mourning

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