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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820381803321

Autore

Wang Jessica

Titolo

American science in an age of anxiety : scientists, anticommunism, and the cold war / / Jessica Wang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, c1999

ISBN

979-88-908676-9-8

0-8078-6710-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 p.)

Disciplina

509.73

Soggetti

Science - United States - History - 20th century

Science and state - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- contents -- introduction -- 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 -- conclusion -- notes.