Book ID: CBB000772047

Drift Station: Arctic Outposts of Superpower Science (2007)

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Althoff, William F. (Author)


Potomac Books


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xiii + 357 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On the scientific “drift stations” established by both superpowers to conduct earth science and climate research and which were often accused of conducting espionage.


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Review Rainger, Ronald (2007) Review of "Drift Station: Arctic Outposts of Superpower Science". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 862). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Vezzosi, Elisabetta
Sörlin, Sverker
Hamblin, Jacob Darwin
Jonathan Haslam
Bini, Elisabetta
Wolfe, Audra Jayne
Concepts
Cold War
Science and politics
Espionage
Geophysics
Science and war; science and the military
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
Places
Soviet Union
United States
Polar regions
Europe
Antarctica
Denmark
Institutions
Genetics Society of America
KGB
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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