Book ID: CBB542994156

America's Information Wars: The Untold Story of Information Systems in America's Conflicts and Politics from World War II to the Internet Age (2018)

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Burke, Colin (Author)


Rowman & Littlefield


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 373 pp.
Language: English

"This book narrates the development of science and intelligence information systems and technologies in the U.S. from World War II through today. The story ranges from a description of the information systems and machines of the 1940s to the rise of a huge international science information industry, and to the 1990's Open Access-Open Culture" (from OCLC)

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Authors & Contributors
Althoff, William F.
Doel, Ronald E.
Goodman, Michael S.
Greene, Benjamin Patrick
Herken, Gregg
Hoffman, Ian
Journals
Journal of Cold War Studies
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Journal of Contemporary History
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Stanford University Press
Harvard University
Hyperion
Potomac Books
Simon & Schuster
The MIT Press
Concepts
Cold War
Science and politics
Science and war; science and the military
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Espionage
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
People
Lee, Wen Ho ()
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Rabinowitch, Eugene
Rosenberg, Julius
Speeth, Sheridan Dauster
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
California (U.S.)
Great Britain
Polar regions
Russia
Institutions
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Strategic Defense Initiative
United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
KGB
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