The Pontecorvo Affair: A Cold War Defection And Nuclear Physics

By Simone Turchetti

In the fall of 1950, newspapers around the world reported that the Italian-born nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo and his family had mysteriously disappeared while returning to Britain from a holi...

Science Studies During The Cold War And Beyond: Paradigms Defected

By E. A. Aronova, Simone Turchetti, Elena Aronova

This Book Recounts How During The Cold War The Study Of Science Moved To The Centre Of Academic Through The Creation Of The New Discipline Of Science Studies. In This Way The Volume Charts The Impo...

The Surveillance Imperative

By P. Roberts, S. Turchetti, Simone Turchetti, Simone Turchetti, Peder Roberts (Eds.)

Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected by historians of science and technology. Using the overarching concept of t...

The Pontecorvo Affair: A Cold War Defection And Nuclear Physics

By Simone Turchetti

In the fall of 1950, newspapers around the world reported that the Italian-born nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo and his family had mysteriously disappeared while returning to Britain from a holi...

Greening The Alliance: The Diplomacy Of NATO'S Science And Environmental Initiatives

By Simone Turchetti

Following the launch of Sputnik, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization became a prominent sponsor of scientific research in its member countries, a role it retained until the end of the Cold War....

Greening The Alliance: The Diplomacy Of NATO'S Science And Environmental Initiatives

By Simone Turchetti

Following the launch of Sputnik, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization became a prominent sponsor of scientific research in its member countries, a role it retained until the end of the Cold War....

Science Studies During The Cold War And Beyond: Paradigms Defected

By E. A. Aronova, Simone Turchetti, Elena Aronova

This book examines the ways in which studies of science intertwined with Cold War politics, in both familiar and less familiar “battlefields” of the Cold War. Taken together, the essays highlight t...

The Surveillance Imperative

By P. Roberts, S. Turchetti, Simone Turchetti, Simone Turchetti, Peder Roberts (Eds.), S. Turchetti; P. Roberts

Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected by historians of science and technology. Using the overarching concept of t...

Pontecorvo Affair

By Simone Turchetti

In the fall of 1950, newspapers around the world reported that the Italian-born nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo and his family had mysteriously disappeared while returning to Britain from a holi...

Surveillance Imperative

By Peder Roberts, Simone Turchetti