Author: United States. Office of Civil and Defense MobilizationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Civil and Defense Mobilization Directory
Author: United States. Office of Civil and Defense MobilizationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Defense Mobilization Organization Directory (including Defense Production Act, as Amended and Selective Executive Orders)
Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
Federal Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Select List of Publications Issued by Senate and House Committees
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government OperationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Presentation Outlines and Reading List
Author: Report to the President by the Director of Defense Mobilization
Author: United States. Office of Defense MobilizationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Beyond Sputnik and the Space Race
Author: Hugh R. SlottenPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421441233
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A fascinating account of how the United States established the first global satellite communications system to project geopolitical leadership during the Cold War. On July 20, 1969, the world watched, spellbound, as NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped off the Apollo 11 lunar module to walk on the moon. NASA estimated that 20 percent of the planet's population—nearly 650 million people—watched the moon landing footage, which was made possible by the first global satellite communications system, the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, or Intelsat. In Beyond Sputnik and the Space Race, Hugh R. Slotten analyzes the efforts of US officials, especially during the Kennedy administration, to establish this satellite communication system and open it to all countries of the world. Locked in competition with the Soviet Union for both military superiority and international prestige, President John F. Kennedy overturned the Eisenhower administration's policy of treating satellite communications as simply an extension of traditionally regulated telecommunications. Instead of allowing private communications companies to set up separate systems that would likely primarily serve major "developed" regions, the new administration decided to take the lead in establishing a single world system. Explaining how the East-West Cold War conflict became increasingly influenced by North-South tensions during this period, Slotten highlights the growing importance of non-aligned countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. He also underscores the importance of a political economy of "total Cold War" in which many crucial aspects of US society became tied to imperatives of national security and geopolitical prestige. Drawing on detailed archival records to examine the full range of decisionmakers involved in the Intelsat system, Beyond Sputnik and the Space Race spotlights mid- and lower-level agency staff usually ignored by historians. One of the few works to analyze the establishment of a major global infrastructure project, this book provides an outstanding analytical overview of the history of global electronic communications from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
Nursing Aspects of Health Mobilization
Author: United States. Public Health ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge
Author: American Philosophical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description