Walter E Grunden
Biographic Data
| ID | 1014385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walter E Grunden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walter E |
| FAMILY NAME | Grunden |
| SIGNATURE | GRUNDEN W E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowling Green State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Physicists and ‘Fellow Travelers’
This essay presents a microhistory of U.S. -Japanese relations during the years of the Allied Occupation (1945–1952), describing how policies the United States enacted in the context of Cold War era national security concerns negatively affected the experiences of Japanese scientists. The Red Scare of the McCarthy Era ran along parallel tracks in the United States and Japan, and during those years, Japanese scientists—especially physicists—were t…
In Defense of Japan
Reviewed by: In Defense of Japan: From the Market to the Military in Space Policy Walter E. Grunden (bio) In Defense of Japan: From the Market to the Military in Space Policy. By Saadia M. Pekkanen and Paul Kallender-Umezu. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2010. Pp. xxv+377. $55. Japan has been a world leader in science and technology for several decades now, but few may realize that it has also become a premier military power in spac…
Laying the Foundation for Wartime Research
This chapter surveys wartime science mobilization within National Socialist Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union to understand how each nation mobilized science resources for the war, how their approaches to mobilization differed, and how these approaches might be evaluated historically. Science mobilization in National Socialist Germany, in particular, has heretofore been characterized as a failure; however, such a view appears too simplistic an…
Wartime Nuclear Weapons Research in Germany and Japan
This article compares military research projects during the Second World War to develop nuclear weapons in Germany and Japan, two countries who lost the war and failed to create nuclear weapons. The performance and motivations of the scientists, as well as the institutional support given the work, is examined, explaining why, in each case, the project went as far as it did-but no further. The story is carried over into the postwar period, when th…
Science and Cultural Exchange in Modern History
Hungnam and the Japanese atomic bomb
Since 1946, journalists in the US have alleged that Japanese scientists successfully built and tested an atomic bomb hear the city of Hungnam, Korea, during the closing days of World War II. Based upon reports from US military intelligence investigations conducted after the war, as well as from Japanese corporate histories and memoirs, the present essay attempts to dispel the myth of Japans atomic bomb by providing a detailed examination of the e…
Physicists and ‘Fellow Travelers’
This essay presents a microhistory of U.S. -Japanese relations during the years of the Allied Occupation (1945–1952), describing how policies the United States enacted in the context of Cold War era national security concerns negatively affected the experiences of Japanese scientists. The Red Scare of the McCarthy Era ran along parallel tracks in the United States and Japan, and during those years, Japanese scientists—especially physicists—were t…
Hungnam and the Japanese atomic bomb
Since 1946, journalists in the US have alleged that Japanese scientists successfully built and tested an atomic bomb hear the city of Hungnam, Korea, during the closing days of World War II. Based upon reports from US military intelligence investigations conducted after the war, as well as from Japanese corporate histories and memoirs, the present essay attempts to dispel the myth of Japans atomic bomb by providing a detailed examination of the e…
Science and Cultural Exchange in Modern History
Laying the Foundation for Wartime Research
This chapter surveys wartime science mobilization within National Socialist Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union to understand how each nation mobilized science resources for the war, how their approaches to mobilization differed, and how these approaches might be evaluated historically. Science mobilization in National Socialist Germany, in particular, has heretofore been characterized as a failure; however, such a view appears too simplistic an…
Wartime Nuclear Weapons Research in Germany and Japan
This article compares military research projects during the Second World War to develop nuclear weapons in Germany and Japan, two countries who lost the war and failed to create nuclear weapons. The performance and motivations of the scientists, as well as the institutional support given the work, is examined, explaining why, in each case, the project went as far as it did-but no further. The story is carried over into the postwar period, when th…
In Defense of Japan
Reviewed by: In Defense of Japan: From the Market to the Military in Space Policy Walter E. Grunden (bio) In Defense of Japan: From the Market to the Military in Space Policy. By Saadia M. Pekkanen and Paul Kallender-Umezu. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2010. Pp. xxv+377. $55. Japan has been a world leader in science and technology for several decades now, but few may realize that it has also become a premier military power in spac…
Physicists and ‘Fellow Travelers’
This essay presents a microhistory of U.S. -Japanese relations during the years of the Allied Occupation (1945–1952), describing how policies the United States enacted in the context of Cold War era national security concerns negatively affected the experiences of Japanese scientists. The Red Scare of the McCarthy Era ran along parallel tracks in the United States and Japan, and during those years, Japanese scientists—especially physicists—were t…
History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Economic history (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Twentieth Century Scientific Developments (4 works) · Cold war (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · World War II (3 works)