Cooperation despite Confrontation
Science and Technology in the Cold War

Osteuropa 10/2009
Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel mit Klaus Gestwa, Stefan Rohdewald (Gastherausgeber) (Ed.)
Berlin (BWV) 2009 [= Osteuropa 10/2009]
200 pages, 62 figures
Price: 18,00 €
ISBN: 978-3-8305-1706-1

Deutsche Fassung

Contents

• Editorial
  Dialectic of Armament
• Stefan Rohdewald, Klaus Gestwa
  Interdependence Studies
  Cold War Science and Technology
• Klaus Gestwa, Boris Belge
  Weather War and Climate Change
  Meteorology in the Cold War
• Slava Gerovitch
  Ruling the World
  Cybernetics in the Cold War
• Jens Niederhut
  Infinite Community?
  The Scientific Community in the Cold War
• Igor J. Polianski
  A Dream of Becoming Something Different
  Lysenkoism and the Political Semantics of Heredity
• Simon Donig
  Role Model and Class Enemy
  The United States and East German Computer Sciences in the 1960s
• Frank Dittmann
  Technology versus Conflict
  How Data Networks Penetrated the Iron Curtain
• Klaus Gestwa
  “Columbus of the Cosmos”
  The Cult of Yuri Gagarin
• Andreas Nievergelt
  Chess Composition in the Cold War
  Contact Zone between East and West
• Luminita Gatejel
  Socialist Volkswagen
  Trabant, Lada, and Dacia in the Cold War
• Stefan Rohdewald
  Faster, Higher, Farther
  Biomechanics between West and East