Cold War Science and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge

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PART 1 Secrecy and Science 1 Scientists, Secrecy, and Scientific Intelligence: The Challenges of International Science in Cold War America Ronald E. Doel 2 A 'Need-To-Know-More' Criterion? Science and Information Security at NATO during the Cold War Simone Turchetti 3 A Transnational Approach to US Nuclear Weapons Relationships with Britain and France in the 60s and 70s John Krige PART 2 Dutch Perspectives 4 Putting a Lid on the Gas Centrifuge: Classification of the Dutch Ultracentrifuge Project, 1960-1961 Abel Streefland 5 Quid Pro Quo: Dutch Defense Research during the Early Cold War Jeroen van Dongen and Friso Hoeneveld 6 Chemical Warfare Research in the Netherlands Herman Roozenbeek 7 The Fulbright Program in the Netherlands: An Example of Science Diplomacy Giles Scott-Smith PART 3 'Cold War' Science? 8 The Absence of the East: International Influences on Science Policy in Western Europe during the Cold War David Baneke 9 Colonial Crossings: Social Science, Social Knowledge, and American Power from the Nineteenth Century to the Cold War Jessica Wang PART 4 Scientific Hubris 10 Cold War Atmospheric Sciences in the United States: From Modeling to Control Kristine C. Harper 11 Small State versus Superpower: Science and Geopolitics in Greenland in the Early Cold War Matthias Heymann, Henry Nielsen, Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen and Henrik Knudsen 12 The Ford Foundation and the Measurement of Values Paul Erickson