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>How easy it is to forget the cold war. In 2012, we cannot look back at scientists of 1976 and say "you should have read and believed this obscure Russian scien
by batista 14y ago
>How easy it is to forget the cold war. In 2012, we cannot look back at scientists of 1976 and say "you should have read and believed this obscure Russian science journal and the argument would have been put to permanent rest". 1976 was a different time in Russian-American relations especially when it came to space.
That makes no sense. Actually BECAUSE of the cold war Americans should have studies Russian scientific results more at the time, even to the point of spying on them, not just reading published journals --after all you don't want the "enemy" to have an advantage over you.
- wdewind 14y agoWhich just brings it full circle one more time: the Russians would know this and thus be incentivized to plant misleading stories.
- eru 14y agoThomas Schelling argues in The Strategy of Conflict that in a cold war situation the belligerents might actually encourage spying to make sure the other side has accurate information. (The accurate information being necessary for effective threats of mutually assured destruction.)