Historical Studies in The Physical and Biological Sciences 

About: Historical Studies in The Physical and Biological Sciences is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Context (language use). It has an ISSN identifier of 0890-9997. Over the lifetime, 250 publications have been published receiving 3552 citations.

The Cold War, RAND, and the generation of knowledge, 1946-1962

Abstract: La guerre froide a serieusement altere le developpement national des Etats-Unis et des Etats Sovietiques. Dans cet article, l'A. analyse leur developpement scientifique et technologique en etudiant l'histoire et la production de la recherche

Cold War requisitions, scientific manpower, and the production of American physicists after World War II

Abstract: Beginning most explicitly with the American involvement in the Korean War, and continuing unabated until 1970, the demand for Ph.D.-trained physicists in the United States followed a particular Cold War logic of "manpower" and requisitions. This logic, rehearsed by senior physicists, university administrators, government commissions, individual senators, and newspaper reporters from across the country argued that young graduate students in physics constituted the nation9s most precious resource. The purported need to train ever-larger numbers of physics graduate students was often used to justify the structural rearrangements associated with "big science," from huge federally-subsidized budgets to factory-sized equipment. The exigencies of training roomfuls of graduate students, rather than mentoring handfuls of disciples, reinforced the prevailing American pragmatic, instrumentalist approach to theory.