The legacy of Cold War science propaganda

Propaganda and Protest: Evidence from Post-Cold War Africa∗

Does propaganda reduce the probability of popular protest in Africa’s contemporary autocracies? To answer this question, we draw on an original dataset of state-run newspapers from 21 African countries, encompassing two languages and roughly 600,000 articles. We find that propaganda diminishes the probability of protest, and that its effects persist over time. By increasing the level of pro-reg...

Facing the environmental risk issues of the cold war legacy.

During World War II and the Cold War, the United States developed a complex of industrial facilities for the research, production, and testing of nuclear weapons. In addition, the United States government supported the development of nuclear energy for commercial applications and conducted research in high-energy physics and other basic sciences, as well as medical diagnostics and treatment. Th...

Cold war, hot nukes: legacy of an era.

EditorialAmerican geography , social science and the Cold War American geography , social science and the Cold War Trevor

This article argues that the history of geography should be written from an externalist perspective; that is, its history should be directly related to the larger historical context in which it is embedded. My example is American human geography during the early Cold War period. The argument is that as a result of America’s experience during the Second World War, the USA mobilised its academy t...

The legacy of Islamic world in modern medicine and science

The legacy of the Islamic world in medicine and natural science is the legacy of Greece, increased by many additions, mostly practical. Rhazes, the Iranian, was a talented clinical observer, but not a Harvey. Abd al-Latif, the Arab, was a diligent seeker in anatomy, but in no way to be compared to Vesalius. The Muslims possessed excellent translations of the works of the Hippocratic Corpus and ...