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The growing stream of American and Soviet scientists being processed through the Pan Am and Aeroflot counters attests to the recent upsurge in the scope of scientific cooperation between the United States and the USSR. While scientists inevitably spend an enormous amount of energy coping with the administrative problems and cultural adjustments before and during their exchange visits, they nevertheless find considerable reserve energy within themselves to carry through. Sleep simply assumes a lower priority than usual, and the increased flow of adrenalin helps most exchange scientists take advantage of professional opportunities during their visits.
What is national is no longer science.
Anton Chekov
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Many of the currently active joint ventures are identified in “Special Issue: Joint Ventures,” USSR Technology Update, Delphic Associates, May 5, 1988. Comments on future prospects are included in John E. Parsons, “The Future of East-West Industrial Cooperation,” Technology Review, November/ December 1988, pp. 57–63.
Prospects for cooperation in space research are discussed in Kathy Sawyer, “Taking Détente to Mars and Beyond,” The Washington Post, May 15, 1988, p. B3; and Henry F. Cooper, “A Reporter at Large, Explorers,” The New Yorker, March 7, 1988, pp. 43–61.
Two interesting reviews of scientific exchanges are “Review of US-USSR Interacademy Exchanges and Relations,” National Research Council, September 1977; and Catherine P. Ailes and Arthur E. Pardee, “The US-USSR Agreement on Cooperation in the Fields of Science and Technology: Review and Evaluation,” SRI International, March 1984.
Selected scientific benefits of exchanges are documented in “United StatesSoviet Scientific Exchanges,” Hearings of the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East, House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, US Congress, July 31, 1986; and “Selected Aspects of US-USSR Cooperation in Science,” Prepared by the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council for the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East, House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, US Congress, August 1986.
“Briefing Book for NAS Exchangees to the USSR,” National Academy of Sciences, 1987/1988.
Another perspective on scientific relations between the two countries is presented in Kim McDonald, “US Researchers See Historic Shift in Relations with Soviet Scientists,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 22, 1988, p. 1.
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Schweitzer, G.E. (1989). Scientific Cooperation on the Rebound. In: Techno-Diplomacy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6046-7_6
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