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Title:

The surveillance imperative : geosciences during the Cold War and beyond / edited by Simone Turchetti and Peder Roberts.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Environmental monitoring--History--20th century.
Earth sciences--History--20th century.
Electronic surveillance--History--20th century.
Military surveillance--History--20th century.
Space surveillance--History--20th century.
Cold War.

Other Authors:

Turchetti, Simone, editor. editor.
Roberts, Peder, editor. editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

What was whole about the whole earth? : how the earth sciences saw their subject during the Cold War and beyond / Robert Poole. chapter 10. From the ground up : uranium surveillance and atomic energy in Western Europe / Matthew Adamson, Lino Camprub©Ư, and Simone Turchetti -- chapter 2. Underground and underwater : oil security in France and Britain during the cold War / Roberto Cantoni and Leucha Veneer -- chapter 3. "Unscare" and conceal : the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation and the origin of international radiation monitoring / Nestor Herran -- chapter 4. "In God we trust. All others we monitor" : seismology, surveillance and the test ban negotiations / Simone Turchetti -- chapter 5. Stormy seas : Anglo-American negotiations on ocean surveillance / Sam Robinson -- chapter 6. Scientists and sea ice under surveillance in the early Cold War / Peder Roberts -- chapter 7. Space technology and the rise of the US surveillance state / Roger D. Launius -- chapter 8. Serendipitous outcomes in space history : from space photography to environmental surveillance / Sebastian Vincent Grevsm©ơhl -- chapter 9. Observing the environmental turn through the global environment monitoring system / Soraya Boudia -- chapter 10. What was whole about the whole earth? : how the earth sciences saw their subject during the Cold War and beyond / Robert Poole.

Series:

Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology

ISBN:

113743872X
9781137438720

OCLC:

(OCoLC)879119447

LCCN:

2014011527

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)