For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military engagement.
Competing with the Soviets offers a short, accessible introduction to the special role that Science and Technology played in maintaining.
The Cold War placed two opposite conceptions of the good society before the uncommitted world and history itself, and Science figured prominently in the picture.
For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military engagement