This interdisciplinary text takes into account the impact of the
Cold War on various locales, groups, societies, organizations, and
technology. Included in this work are chapters on education,
political groups, cultural challenges and rivalries, nuclear
technology and weaponry, the impact of nuclear exposure, and the
new global order in a post-nuclear age. Edited by an historian,
each chapter is written from multiple disciplinary perspectives a a
political science, history, social science, science, and medicine a
a making this work exceptionally unique with broad sweeping
conceptual frameworks, methods, and points of analysis, all the
while focused upon a four- decade era of fear. The work of
Stivachtis and Manning offer an engaging look into the organization
of the international community, world affairs, and inter-cultural
challenges during the Cold War to understand the impact on global
society through the lens of the English School of International
Relations. Cimbala's chapter delves into the challenges to
controlling and understanding nuclear warfare throughout the Cold
War and how the knowledge of control or preventing catastrophic
nuclear war in the historic period is significantly different from
the current nuclear age, from the perspectives of what nations have
weapons, of what magnitude, and the potential for warfare. The
impact of nuclear exposure well after the Cold War is examined in
Osono's work, which analyzes the physiological and neurological
impact of nuclear waste on workers in China who unknowingly
unearthed barrels of nuclear waste. Nekola offers readers a view
into the role of the exiled Czech political parties that operated
in outside of the regulations of the Iron Curtain, after the 1948
Communist Coup, maintaining party publications and organization
throughout the 1950s. The work of Bar-Noi analyzes the relationship
between the Israeli and Soviet governments as the nation of Israel
was founded and ultimately placed in the political cross-hairs of
world leaders from 1945 to 1967. Palmadessa's works on U.S.
education a a k-12 compulsory and higher education a a considers
the ways in which education responded to the call for patriotic
support of the U.S. in opposition to the communist regime in Russia
and the understanding of the global role education was to play. The
Cold War shook the world, its institutions, cultural groups, and
scientific communities to their core. The Cold War: Global Impacts
and Lessons Learned offers readers insight into the immediate
challenges, the continued obstacles, and the knowledge gained from
this tumultuous period riddled with fear that dominates the
narrative of 20th century world history.
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