The cold war brought the best out of some of the worlds greatest technical minds but along the way they proposed a number of bizarre unrealistic and downright absurd creations that left everyone dumbfounded.

Cold war military technology. The british chieftain was one of the most powerful tanks of the cold war period. The center for the national interest held a panel on great power technology competition. 10 cold war weapons that terrified us.

Investigations of how the global cold war shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science. 3 in rarer cases writers have sought to situate war within a broader technological economic social and cultural framework. The technology made it quite far through the prototype and testing processto the point that a number of analysts at the time.

Government and military patronage shaped cold war technoscientific practices imposing methods that were project oriented team based and subject to national security restrictions. Best of the cold war military technology uss george washington. Indirectly the ideas of computer science also had a profound effect on psychology cognitive science and neuroscience through the mind computer analogy.

The first ballistic nuclear missile submarine was built by the us only 12 years after the country. It has a 30. The cold war period saw a dramatic expansion of state funded science and technology research.

The panel featured paul heer george beebe and robert atkinson and was. The technology progressed in the military sphere especially during the cold war and in the 1970s the first self contained digital camera was created. More so than with previously established disciplines receiving military funding the culture of computer science was permeated with a cold war military perspective.

A new technological cold war. 4 this is where the principal focus of the present article. The soviet made kalashnikova model 1947 remains one of the most famous and used rifles of all time.

Tribulations of the cold war itself. Military history provides a rich literature on war and technology but its focus has tended to be on the importance of technology in helping militaries win wars. At the time of its introduction in 1966 it was the largest most heavily armed main battle tank on either side.