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STS.011

STS.011. Lecture on Cold War Science. Lecture overview. 1. General transformation of science 2. Effects on universities 3. Resistance. General Transformation of science. 1. Rise of Big science 2. Dominance of physics 3. Government funding 4. Militarization of science

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STS.011

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  1. STS.011 Lecture on Cold War Science

  2. Lecture overview • 1. General transformation of science • 2. Effects on universities • 3. Resistance

  3. General Transformation of science • 1. Rise of Big science • 2. Dominance of physics • 3. Government funding • 4. Militarization of science • 5. New centers of power • 6. New networks of power

  4. Archipelago of national labs • LANL • LLNL • Sandia • Brookhaven • Argonne • Oak Ridge • Hanford • INEL • Savannah River

  5. Government funding • DoD, • DOE, • ONR, • DARPA • Vannevar Bush and NSF

  6. 1983 statistics • Military funded: • 82% EE • 54% aeronautics • 29% materials science

  7. New centers of power • MIT -Draper & Lincoln, CIS • Harvard – Russian Research center • Caltech -JPL • Stanford --SRI • Johns Hopkins – Applied Physics • Georgia tech – GTRI

  8. Networks of power • Cronyism & grants • Industry-academic-government • Regional networks: • Route 128 • Silicon Valley

  9. Effects Inside Universities • 1. Pre-WWII situation • 2. Univs that benefited • 3. Reshaping of fields • 4. Secret research • 5. McCarthyism • 6. new hierarchies

  10. Universities that benefited • Stanford • MIT • Johns Hopkins

  11. Reshaping of fields • Rebecca Lowen, The Making of the Cold War University • Field geology, ecology, pol. Philosophy • Particle physics, EE, area studies, • political science • Psychology • anthropology

  12. secrecy • Classified research & theses • Severed communities • 1960s and 1970s • Widnall Report

  13. Resistance • Wiener • 1960s • MIT • Stanford

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