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The Bargaining Chips Are … Chips: On Chris Miller’s “Chip War”

October 4, 2022   •   By W. Patrick McCray

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The Bargaining Chips Are … Chips: On Chris Miller’s “Chip War”

W. Patrick McCray is a professor of history at UC Santa Barbara and the author of five books on the history of modern science and technology includingMaking Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture, which appeared from MIT Press in 2020. McCray is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

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The Bargaining Chips Are … Chips: On Chris Miller’s “Chip War”

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