From Pugwash to Putin : a critical history of US-Soviet scientific cooperation /

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For 60 years, scientists from the United States and the Soviet Union participated in state-organized programs of collaboration. But what really happened in these programs? What were the hopes of the participants and governments? How did these programs weather the bumpiest years of political turbulen...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sher, Gerson S., 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Science > International cooperation.
Technology > International cooperation.
Sciences > Coopération internationale.
Technologie > Coopération internationale.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
International relations
Science > International cooperation
Technology > International cooperation
United States > Relations > Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation) > Relations > United States.
Russia (Federation)
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • The deep Cold War and the exchange programs
  • Detente and the heyday of massive agreements
  • Sanctions and Perestroika
  • After the fall : new times, new approaches
  • How did it start?
  • What kept them going?
  • Scientific accomplishments
  • Other accomplishments
  • Problems
  • On the nature of science in the former Soviet Union
  • Vignettes
  • What to make of it all?

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