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Paperback American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War Book

ISBN: 0807847496

ISBN13: 9780807847497

American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War

No professional group in the United States benefited more from World War II than the scientific community. After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, scientists enjoyed unprecedented public visibility and political influence as a new elite whose expertise now seemed critical to America's future. But as the United States grew committed to Cold War conflict with the Soviet Union and the ideology of anticommunism came to dominate American politics,...

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A thorough and thought-provoking book

In this meticulously researched book, first-time author Jessica Wang sheds new light on the tempestuous relationship between scientists and the US government during the Cold War period. Wang's access to previously classified documents, coupled with first-hand interviews with the scientists involved, support fresh thinking on the causes and costs of anticommunist paranoia. Readers will appreciate the tensions that existed...

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