From Pugwash to Putin: A Critical History of US-Soviet Scientific Cooperation

These firsthand accounts of US and Soviet scientists communicating across the Iron Curtain offer "a stunning portrait of Cold War scientific cooperation" (Physics Today).
For sixty years, scientists from the United States and the Soviet Union participated in state-organized programs of collaboration. But what really happened in these programs? What did the participants and governments hope to achieve? And how did these programs weather the bumpiest years of political turbulence? From Pugwas...