Cold War science and the transatlantic circulation of knowledge / edited by Jeroen van Dongen ; associate editors Friso Hoeneveld, Abel Streefland.

Leiden : Brill, 2015.

x, 293 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Secrecy and science -- Scientists, secrecy, and scientific intelligence : the challenges of international science in Cold War America / Ronald E. Doel -- A "need-to-know-more" criterion? : science and information security at NATO during the Cold War / Simone Turchetti -- A transnational approach to US nuclear weapons relationships with Britain and France in the 60s and 70s / John Krige -- Part 2. Dutch perspectives -- Putting a lid on the gas centrifuge : classification of the Dutch ultracentrifuge project, 1960-1961 / Abel Streefland -- Quid pro quo : Dutch defense research during the early Cold War / Joroen van Dongen and Friso Hoeneveld -- Chemical warfare research in the Netherlands / Herman Roozenbeek -- The Fulbright Program in the Netherlands : an example of science diplomacy / Giles Scott-Smith -- Part 3. "Cold War" science? -- The absence of the East : international influences on science policy in Western Europe during the Cold War / David Baneke -- Colonial crossings : social science, social knowledge, and American power from the nineteenth century to the Cold War / Jessica Wang -- Part 4. Scientific hubris -- Cold War atmospheric sciences in the United States : from modeling to control / Kristine C. Harper -- Small state versus superpower : science and geopolitics in Greenland in the early Cold War / Matthias Heymann, Henry Nielsen, Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen and Henrik Knudsen -- The Ford Foundation and the measurement of values / Paul Erickson -- Index of names.