Technological internationalism and world order : aviation, atomic energy, and the search for international peace, 1920-1950

Introduction: Machines of peace -- Invention, interdependence, and the lag : conceptualizing international relations in the age of the machine -- Controlling scientific war : international air police and the reinvention of disarmament -- The shape of things to come : aviation, the League of Nations, and the transformation of world order -- Air power for a United Nations : the international air force during the Second World War -- Wings for peace : planning for the postwar internationalization of civil aviation -- A battle for atomic internationalism : United States and the international control of atomic energy -- A blessing in disguise : Britain and the international control of atomic energy -- Conclusion : science, technology, and internationalism into the Cold War and beyond.