American science in an age of anxiety : scientists, anticommunism, and the cold war / Jessica Wang
- Bib ID:
- 2229430
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Wang, Jessica
- Description:
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- Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, c1999
- xii, 375p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 080782447X (alkaline paper) (cased)
- 0807847496 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Summary:
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American Science in an Age of Anxiety is the first major study of American scientists' encounters with Cold War anticommunism in the decade after World War II. Through the extensive use of archival sources - including recently released FBI files - as well as published primary and secondary sources, Jessica Wang demonstrates the stifling effects of anticommunist ideology on the postwar politics of science. By examining cases of individual scientists subjected to loyalty and security investigations and the organizational response of the scientific community to political attacks, she shows that scientists were neither uniformly helpless victims nor selfless heroes. Rather, her narrative exposes the deep political divisions within the scientific community over the Cold War and provides a complex story of hard choices, a community in crisis, and roads not taken.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Competing Political Visions for Postwar Science: Scientists and Science Legislation, 1945-1947
- 2. Fear, Suspicion, and the Surveillance State: The FAS, HUAC, and the FBI, 1945-1948
- 3. Individual Encounters I: Scientists and AEC Security, 1946-1948
- 4. Individual Encounters II: Scientists and HUAC, 1946-1948
- 5. Negotiating Security: The FAS, the AEC, and the JCAE, 1947-1948
- 6. Responses: Scientists' Associations and Civil Liberties, 1948-1949
- 7. Drawing the Line: The AEC, the National Academy of Sciences, and the AEC Fellowship Program, 1948-1950
- 8. Consequences: The 1950s and Beyond.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-364) and index.
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