The tragedy of American science : from Truman to Trump / Clifford D. Conner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conner, Clifford D., 1941- author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science and state--United States.

Science and state.

Science.

Science--Political aspects.

United States.

Science--Military aspects--United States.

Military-industrial complex--United States.

Military-industrial complex.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 338 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part 1. The Corporatization of American science : The Big Fat Lie ; The Green Revolution ; From Green Revolution to Gene Revolution ; The Tobacco Strategy ; Fraudulent Pharma ; Spitting in the Well We Drink From ; Atoms for Peace? ; The Academic-Industrial Complex ; Think Tanks and the Betrayal of Reason ; The Dismal Science is Certainly Dismal, but is it Science?

Part 2. The Militarization of American science : Science Harnessed to the Chariot of Destruction ; A-Bombs and H-Bombs ; Non-nuclear Technologies of Death ; Bombers, Missiles, and Antimissiles ; Video-Game War ; Lethal Autonomy ; Is Cyberwarfare Really a Thing? ; American Exceptionalism and the Ultimate Perversion of the Behavioral Sciences

Part 3. How we got into this mess... : The Explosive Birth of Big Science ; Operation Paperclip: The Nazification of American Science ; The RAND Corporation: From "Fuck You, Buddy" to Doomsday.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-328) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781642592030

164259203X

Publisher Number:

40030154738

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.