This paper explores the construction of scientists' expertise on international affairs through a study of the rhetoric of U.S. atomic scientists during public and policy‐making debates on the international control of atomic energy between 1945 and 1947. It explores the claims scientists made about the nature of their expertise on issues of diplomacy and international relations and how their expertise was produced and reproduced. The paper shows that scientists were able to successfully project themselves, in the public domain, as experts on political and diplomatic matters related to the atomic. In calling for the international control of atomic energy, scientists constructed their expert knowledge in contrast to, as they portrayed it, the failed expertise of diplomats and political thinkers. In boundary work through their speeches, articles, and government testimonies, scientists drew a line between the political and the scientific, but argued that, as scientist‐citizens, they were able to take their rational thinking from one realm into the other.

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作为政治专家的科学家：原子科学家及其对国际关系专业知识的主张，1945-1947年

本文通过研究美国原子科学家在1945年至1947年之间关于国际控制原子能的公共和决策辩论期间的言论，探索了科学家在国际事务上的专长。它探索了科学家对自然界的主张他们在外交和国际关系问题上的专业知识，以及如何产生和复制他们的专业知识。该论文表明，科学家能够在公共领域成功地成为与原子有关的政治和外交事务专家。在呼吁对原子能进行国际控制时，科学家们将自己的专业知识与所描绘的外交官和政治思想家的专业知识相提并论。通过演讲，文章进行边界工作，