Essay Review ID: CBB000100475

Hidden in Plain Sight: The CORONA Reconnaissance Satellite Programme and Clandestine Cold War Science (2001)

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Description Essay review of K. C. Ruffner (ed.), CORONA: America's First Satellite Program (1995); R. A. McDonald (ed.), CORONA: Between the Sun and the Earth: The First NRO Reconnaissance Eye in Space (1997); C. Peebles, The CORONA Project: America's First Spy Satellites (1997); D. A. Day; J. M. Logsdon; B. Latell (eds.), Eye in the Sky: The story of the Corona Spy Satellites (1998).


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Authors & Contributors
Dienesch, Robert M.
Sacko, David H.
Coletta, Damon
Maharaj, Doraisamy Ashok
Wildenberg, Thomas
Weiner, Sharon K.
Journals
Comparative Technology Transfer and Society
Vulcan
Technology and Culture
Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy
History and Technology
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Publishers
Naval Institute Press
Walker & Company
University of Washington Press
University of Nebraska Press
The MIT Press
Texas A&M University Press
Concepts
Cold War
Satellites, artificial
Military technology
Technology
Space programs
Surveillance
People
Eisenhower, Dwight David
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Russia
Netherlands
Sweden
Hungary
Institutions
International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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