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Tables of Contents for Physical Science and the Language of War
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Volume Introduction
vii
 
Scientists and the State: The Legacy of World War II
1
28
Michael Fortun
Sylvan S. Schweber
Construction
29
48
Peter Bacon Hales
Mission Change in the Large Laboratory: The Los Alamos Implosion Program, 1943-1945
77
26
Lillian Hoddeson
The Fathering of the Monster: The Manhattan Project
103
19
Brian Easlea
Roots of Dissent: The Chicago Met Lab and the Origins of the Franck Report
122
24
Matt Price
The Ontology of the Enemy: Norbert Wiener and the Cybernetic Vision
146
39
Peter Galison
Behind Quantum Electronics: National Security as Basis for Physical Research in the United States, 1940-1960
185
81
Paul Forman
The Construction of Technical Facts
266
43
Donald MacKenzie
Nuclear Weapons Testing: Scientific Experiment as Political Ritual
309
18
Hugh Gusterson
Preface, 1995: The Death of the Superconducting Super Collider in the Life of American Physics
327
34
Daniel J. Kevles
Acknowledgments
361