Totalitarian Science and Technology

by Paul R. Josephson

In this revised edition of "Totalitarian Science and Technology", Josephson has included analysis of science and technology in such authoritarian regimes as North Korea, the People's Republic of China, and Cuba. He argues that politics plays an important role in shaping research and development in all countries, but nowhere with greater risk to citizens and the environment than in closed political systems. Students of European, Chinese, and Russian history, history of science and technology, and environmental history will find provocative and informative discussions in this book.

Genres: History Of Science, Science, Politics

181 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Clement Ying]

This book describes the history of totalitarian distortion of science & technology in 20th-century regimes like Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, China and North Korea.

For a man who has come across such regime, it is easily understood.

The question is: are we facing another technological totalitarianism in global scale?