Stefan Guth
Biographic Data
| ID | 6665507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Guth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Guth |
| SIGNATURE | GUTH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tübingen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2238-9574 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From close call to close contacts
The centrality of the nuclear in Cold War politics has long been undisputed. But while confrontation and competition between the blocs figure prominently in accounts of the atomic age, transsystemic cooperation is only beginning to attract scholarly attention. Based on an analysis of Soviet collaboration with the United States and France in fast breeder reactor development and nuclear-powered water desalination, this article argues that in a chan…
Soviet Nuclear Technoscience
weapons, believed that a time was coming "in which at any given moment we have the power to transform any given place on our planet, and even our planet itself, into a Hiroshima." The speculative anticipation of an atomic inferno created an atmosphere in which neither disarmament nor demobilization was possible and the "self-sustained conflict" 6 of the Cold War became a "radical age." The goal of the nuclear powers was not only to build weapons …
La technoscience nucléaire soviétique
En 1904, Frederick Soddy, lauréat du prix Nobel en 1921 pour ses recherches en radiochimie, spéculait sur le fait que le décodage, puis le déchaînement des forces prodigieuses de l’atome permettraient aux « nouveaux alchimistes » de « verdir les déserts, de fondre la calotte polaire et de transformer la terre entière en un plaisant jardin d’Éden ». Il prédisait aussi que l’État qui posséderait les premières armes atomiques opérationnelles conquer…
Breeding Soviet Progress
This article investigates an ambitious attempt to materialise the imaginary of atomic‐powered communism on the Southern periphery of the post‐Stalinist USSR: the nuclear complex of Shevchenko on Kazakhstan’s Caspian shore, which combined uranium mining, a fast breeder reactor and large‐scale nuclear‐powered water desalination in a modernist showcase city, to domestic and international acclaim. The analysis focuses on how political and technoscien…
One Future Only. The Soviet Union in the Age of the Scientific-Technical Revolution
One Future Only. The Soviet Union in the Age of the Scientific-Technical Revolution The present article focuses on the «Scientific-Technical Revolution» (STR), tracing the Soviet leadership's bid for the future throughout the post-Stalinist period and examining how it came to be challenged by the scientific-technical and literary intelligentsias of the country. I argue that what was claimed to be the main strength of official Soviet thought on th…
One Future Only. The Soviet Union in the Age of the Scientific-Technical Revolution
One Future Only. The Soviet Union in the Age of the Scientific-Technical Revolution The present article focuses on the «Scientific-Technical Revolution» (STR), tracing the Soviet leadership's bid for the future throughout the post-Stalinist period and examining how it came to be challenged by the scientific-technical and literary intelligentsias of the country. I argue that what was claimed to be the main strength of official Soviet thought on th…
One Future Only. The Soviet Union in the Age of the Scientific-Technical Revolution
One Future Only. The Soviet Union in the Age of the Scientific-Technical Revolution The present article focuses on the «Scientific-Technical Revolution» (STR), tracing the Soviet leadership's bid for the future throughout the post-Stalinist period and examining how it came to be challenged by the scientific-technical and literary intelligentsias of the country. I argue that what was claimed to be the main strength of official Soviet thought on th…
Soviet Nuclear Technoscience
weapons, believed that a time was coming "in which at any given moment we have the power to transform any given place on our planet, and even our planet itself, into a Hiroshima." The speculative anticipation of an atomic inferno created an atmosphere in which neither disarmament nor demobilization was possible and the "self-sustained conflict" 6 of the Cold War became a "radical age." The goal of the nuclear powers was not only to build weapons …
La technoscience nucléaire soviétique
En 1904, Frederick Soddy, lauréat du prix Nobel en 1921 pour ses recherches en radiochimie, spéculait sur le fait que le décodage, puis le déchaînement des forces prodigieuses de l’atome permettraient aux « nouveaux alchimistes » de « verdir les déserts, de fondre la calotte polaire et de transformer la terre entière en un plaisant jardin d’Éden ». Il prédisait aussi que l’État qui posséderait les premières armes atomiques opérationnelles conquer…
Breeding Soviet Progress
This article investigates an ambitious attempt to materialise the imaginary of atomic‐powered communism on the Southern periphery of the post‐Stalinist USSR: the nuclear complex of Shevchenko on Kazakhstan’s Caspian shore, which combined uranium mining, a fast breeder reactor and large‐scale nuclear‐powered water desalination in a modernist showcase city, to domestic and international acclaim. The analysis focuses on how political and technoscien…
From close call to close contacts
The centrality of the nuclear in Cold War politics has long been undisputed. But while confrontation and competition between the blocs figure prominently in accounts of the atomic age, transsystemic cooperation is only beginning to attract scholarly attention. Based on an analysis of Soviet collaboration with the United States and France in fast breeder reactor development and nuclear-powered water desalination, this article argues that in a chan…
Political science (4 works) · Nuclear Issues and Defense (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Twentieth Century Scientific Developments (3 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Politics (2 works)