Book ID: CBB000112014

Cold War, Hot Science: Applied Research in Britain's Defense Laboratories 1945--1990 (1999)

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Bud, Robert (Editor)
Gummett, Philip J. (Editor)


Harwood Academic Publishers


Publication Date: 1999
Edition Details: Foreword by Hermann Bondi
Physical Details: xx + 426 pp., illus., tables, index
Language: English

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Review Ellam, Clive (2006) Review of "Cold War, Hot Science: Applied Research in Britain's Defense Laboratories 1945--1990". Transactions - Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology. unapi

Review Coopey, Richard (2002) Review of "Cold War, Hot Science: Applied Research in Britain's Defense Laboratories 1945--1990". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 484). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Andersen, Caspar
Hill, Christopher R.
Anthony Eames
Clémence Pinel
Young, Ken
Weiner, Sharon K.
Concepts
Technology
Military technology
Cold War
Laboratories
Development of technology; change in technology
Science and war; science and the military
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Soviet Union
Manchester (England)
Russia
Hungary
Institutions
Great Britain. Defence Evaluation Research Agency
UNESCO
United States Navy
United States Air Force (USAF)
Strategic Defense Initiative
Great Britain. Royal Navy
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