Questions tagged [cold-war]
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Soviet atomic bomb development — advantage of knowing it could be done, was this ever said by any Soviet scientist?
I have heard it said that even if Fuchs had not provided details which must have been invaluable — just knowing, for example, that implosion and explosive lenses were employed without any further ...
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Was 'Operation Paperclip' controversial at the time?
With the benefit of hindsight we tend to look back at the the decision to bring ~2000 Nazi Scientists to the US after WW2 with a well deserved level of cynicism. But reading into some of the history ...
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Why did Richard Bellman, creator of dynamic programing say: 1950s were not good years for maths?
Richard Bellman said :
"The 1950s were not good years for mathematical research. We had a
very interesting gentleman in Washington named Wilson. He was
Secretary of Defense, and he actually had ...
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Is it fair to say that the Space Race incentivized research in pure mathematics?
I've only heard personal anecdotes about perceived stimuli and economic support to research in pure mathematics in the 1960s, presumably tied to the space race of the time. Is this something we can ...
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Did the Soviet Union have their own discoveries in the development of semiconductors and the semiconductor industry?
After the Second World War Russia had a vastly larger number of students being trained in their universities compared to the United States around the time of the International Geophysical Year in 1957....
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What did the Soviets do with German scientists after WWII?
The U.S. picked up a whole bunch of German scientists after World War II in Operation Paperclip. One of the most notable was Wernher von Braun, who jump-started the American space program.
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