Suchergebnisse

Kitchens as technology and politics : an introduction / Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann -- The American "fat kitchen" in Europe : postwar domestic modernity and Marshall Plan strategies of enchantment / Greg Castillo -- Staging the kitchen debate : how splitnik got normalized in the United States / Cristina Carbone -- "Our kitchen is just as good" : Soviet responses to the American kitchen / Susan E. Reid -- The radiant American kitchen : domesticating Dutch nuclear energy / Irene Cieraad -- Supermarket USA confronts state socialism : airlifting the technopolitics of industrial food distribution into Cold War Yugoslavia / Shane Hamilton -- The Frankfurt kitchen : the model of modernity and the "madness" of traditional users, 1926 to 1933 / Martina He€ler -- Civilizing housewives versus participatory users : Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky in the employ of the Turkish nation state / Esra Akcan -- "Consultation required!" Women coproducing the modern kitchen in the Netherlands, 1920 to 1970 / Liesbeth Bervoets -- The nation state or the United States? The irrestible kitchen of the British ministry of works, 1944 to 1951 / Julian Holder -- Managing choice : constructing the socialist consumption junction in the German Democratic Republic / Karin Zachmann -- What's new? Women pioneers and the Finnish state meet the American kitchen / Kirsi Saarikangas -- Exporting the American Cold War kitchen : challenging Americanization, technological transfer, and domestication / Ruth Oldenziel -- The Cold War and the kitchen in a global context : the debate over the United Nations guidelines on consumer protection / Matthew Hilton

American technological assistance and a plentiful supply of hard currency have enabled Taiwan to make impressive strides in its campaign for defence self-sufficiency. The study examines America's support for Taiwan's drive for defence self-sufficiency. It outlines present American policy on Taiwan's arms development, explores recent progress in its weapons research and development programme, and discusses potential benefits and liabilities that such a programme may pose for the USA. (DÜI-Sen)

Concern here is with the duty of man to spell out, as far as possible, the impact of technological options on the interacting spheres of the environment & society, taking into account the fact that damage done to the environment today will affect the possibilities of development in the future. The evaluation of technological practices up to now based on a cost-benefit calculation which takes into account certain indirect effects & costs entailed by the choice for the society, must be expanded, by means of systems approach, to encompass all the elements, interests, & relationships involved, & on this basis to start an exchange between the agents concerned. In assessing technology practices it will be necessary to analyze separately their effects on the situation in regard to resources & on the state of our natural resources. Recognizing that environment & development are closely connected, society's ultimate objectives must be spelled out with consideration for: (1) management of natural resources to avoid ruthless growth, (2) protection of the natural environment to prevent deterioration of the quality of life, (3) development of productive forces & the establishment of institutions capable of ensuring increased production of goods & services, their fair distribution, & full employment, & (4) development of research directed to the above objectives. Lastly, emphasis must be laid on the responsibility of the scientific community to evaluate the probable effects of research results. To this end, the proposal made at the 22nd Pugwash Conference on Science & World Affairs to earmark 1 to 5% of the budget of each technological research project for the assessment of its consequences is endorsed. E. Loomis.