| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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Canada and the United States

Jacob Darwin Hamblin. Oceanographers and the Cold War: Disciples of Marine Science. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2005. Pp. xxix, 346. $50.00.

Jacob Darwin Hamblin's book explores the apparent paradox of American oceanography in the early Cold War: its entanglement with the U.S. military and its engagement in internationally cooperative ventures, some of which included America's Cold War enemy, the Soviet Union. Hamblin determines that international cooperation was promoted by American oceanographers for two reasons. First, engaging in scientific exchange with oceanographers of other nations had "redemptive value" (p. xxvi) for oceanographers in the United States. International cooperation meant that the Navy, their chief patron, could not impose blanket security restrictions on their work; the ability to exchange information freely in turn allowed the oceanographers to believe that their scientific research was uncompromised by the military patronage that they avidly welcomed after World War II. Second, the promotion of international cooperation gave oceanographers opportunities to solicit patronage from a broad array of sources. Patrons of oceanography, such as the U.S. Navy, were receptive to the idea of international cooperation, reasoning that more data about oceans would help them fulfill their missions, and that the United States was better equipped than the USSR to take advantage of any new information for the development of military technology. In other words, international cooperation and the mission of the military were not necessarily at odds.

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