Author: United States. Department of Commerce. Office of Technical ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geophysics
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Contains unevaluated information...from foreign-language publications.
Information on Soviet Bloc International Geophysical Cooperation
Author: United States. Department of Commerce. Office of Technical ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geophysics
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Contains unevaluated information...from foreign-language publications.
Information on Soviet Bloc International Geophysical Cooperation
Author: United States. Department of Commerce. Office of Technical ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geophysics
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Contains unevaluated information...from foreign-language publications.
Oceanographers and the Cold War
Author: Jacob Darwin HamblinPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295801859
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Oceanographers and the Cold War is about patronage, politics, and the community of scientists. It is the first book to examine the study of the oceans during the Cold War era and explore the international focus of American oceanographers, taking into account the roles of the U.S. Navy, United States foreign policy, and scientists throughout the world. Jacob Hamblin demonstrates that to understand the history of American oceanography, one must consider its role in both conflict and cooperation with other nations. Paradoxically, American oceanography after World War II was enmeshed in the military-industrial complex while characterized by close international cooperation. The military dimension of marine science--with its involvement in submarine acoustics, fleet operations, and sea-launched nuclear missiles--coexisted with data exchange programs with the Soviet Union and global operations in seas without borders. From an uneasy cooperation with the Soviet bloc in the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58, to the NATO Science Committee in the late 1960s, which excluded the Soviet Union, to the U.S. Marine Sciences Council, which served as an important national link between scientists and the government, Oceanographers and the Cold War reveals the military and foreign policy goals served by U.S. government involvement in cooperative activities between scientists, such as joint cruises and expeditions. It demonstrates as well the extent to which oceanographers used international cooperation as a vehicle to pursue patronage from military, government, and commercial sponsors during the Cold War, as they sought support for their work by creating "disciples of marine science" wherever they could.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2814
Book Description
Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1960
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1961
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1812
Book Description
Technical Translations
Author: OAR
Author: Eyes in the Sky
Author: Theresa B TabakPublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612510140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
Dino A. Brugioni, author of the best-selling account of the Cuban Missile crisis, Eyeball to Eyeball, draws on his long CIA career as one of the world's premier experts on aerial reconnaissance to provide the inside story of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's efforts to use spy planes and satellites to gather intelligence. He reveals Eisenhower to be a hands-on president who, contrary to popular belief, took an active role in assuring that the latest technology was used to gather aerial intelligence. This previously untold story of the secret Cold War program makes full use of the author's firsthand knowledge of the program and of information he gained from interviews with important participants. As a founder and senior officer of the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center, Brugioni was a key player in keeping Eisenhower informed of developments, and he sheds new light on the president's contributions toward building an effective and technologically advanced intelligence organization. The book provides details of the president's backing of the U-2's development and its use to dispel the bomber gap and to provide data on Soviet missile and nuclear efforts and to deal with crises in the Suez, Lebanon, Chinese Off Shore Islands, Tibet, Indonesia, East Germany, and elsewhere. Brugioni offers new information about Eisenhower's order of U-2 flights over Malta, Cyprus, Toulon, and Israel and subsequent warnings to the British, French, and Israelis that the U.S. would not support an invasion of Egypt. He notes that the president also backed the development of the CORONA photographic satellite, which eventually proved the missile gap with the Soviet Union didn't exist, and a variety of other satellite systems that detected and monitored problems around the world. The unsung reconnaissance roles played by Jimmy Doolittle and Edwin Land are also highlighted in this revealing study of Cold War espionage.