Book ID: CBB000831283

Soldiers of Reason: The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire (2008)

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Abella, Alex (Author)


Harcourt


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: 388 pp.; plates; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Authors & Contributors
Dell'Oro, Giorgio
Albertson, Trevor D.
Wellerstein, Alex
Weiner, Sharon K.
Walker, David M.
Vanderbilt, Tom
Journals
Western Historical Quarterly
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Journal of Cold War Studies
Israel Studies
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
University of Texas at Austin
University of Massachusetts Press
The MIT Press
Princeton University Press
Little, Brown, and Company
Concepts
Science and war; science and the military
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Cold War
Technology
Science and politics
Technology and war; technology and the military
People
Sverdrup, Harald Urlik
Pauling, Linus Carl
Kistiakowsky, George Bogdan
Wiesner, Jerome B.
Truman, Harry S.
Stalin, Joseph
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Great Britain
South Dakota (U.S.)
Russia
France
Institutions
RAND Corporation
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
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