Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Science in the Origins of the Cold War -- 2 Atomic Tracings -- 3 Self-Reliant Science -- 4 From the End of the World to the Age of the Earth -- 5 Changing the Mission -- 6 Fighting Each Other -- 7 Embedding the National in the Global -- 8 Bringing NASA Back to Earth -- 9 Calculating Times -- 10 Defining (Scientific) Direction -- 11 The Cold War and the Reshaping of Transnational Science in China -- 12 When Structure Met Sputnik -- 13 Big Science and "Big Science Studies" in the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War -- Concluding Remarks -- About the Authors -- Index.