โ Scribed by John Krige
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In the 1950s and the 1960s, U.S. administrations were determined to prevent Western European countries from developing independent national nuclear weapons programs. To do so, the United States attempted to use its technological pre-eminence as a tool of "soft power" to steer Western European technological choices toward the peaceful uses of the atom and of space, encouraging options that fostered collaboration, promoted nonproliferation, and defused challenges to U.S. technological superiority. In Sharing Knowledge, Shaping Europe, John Krige describes these efforts and the varying degrees of success they achieved.
Krige explains that the pursuit of scientific and technological leadership, galvanized by America's Cold War competition with the Soviet Union, was also usedย for techno-politicalย collaboration with major allies. He examines a series of multinational arrangements involving shared technological platforms and aimed at curbing nuclear proliferation, and he describes the roles of the Department of State, the Atomic Energy Commission, and NASA. To their dismay, these agencies discovered that the use of technology as an instrument of soft power was seriously circumscribed, by internal divisions within successive administrations and by external opposition from European countries. It was successful, Krige argues, only when technological leadership was embedded in a web of supportive "harder" power structures.
History;Africa;Americas;Arctic & Antarctica;Asia;Australia & Oceania;Europe;Middle East;Russia;United States;World;Ancient Civilizations;Military;Historical Study & Educational Resources;Nuclear;Energy Production & Extraction;Engineering;Engineering & Transportation;History;Reference;Engineering;Engineering & Transportation;History & Philosophy;Science & Math;Technology;Science & Math;Arms Control;International & World Politics;Politics & Government;Politics & Social Sciences;European;Internatio
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Paper presented as the 5th European Conference on Knowledge Management, Conservatoire National des Arts en Metiers.
<p>The sharing economy and collaborative consumption are attracting a great deal of interest due to their business, legal and civic implications. The consequences of the spreading of practices of sharing in urban environments and under daily dynamics are underexplored.</p><p>This Special Issue aims
<p><p>The development of new technologies still accelerates. As a result the requirement of easy access to high quality information is essential in modern scientific society. We believe that new cloud-based online system will replace the old system of books and magazines in the future. This is mainl