Under Control: Constructing the Nerve Centers of the Cold War (2016)
Cold War architecture reveals narratives of both faith and fatalism. American federal agencies, such as the Department of Defense and NASA, financed the creation of command and control centers that operated in digital, real-time environments during the postwar years. Contemporaneous advances in communications technology and computer systems enabled the construction of these spaces, and their architecture reflects presumed national security needs during the Cold War. This dissertation explores the design of these control rooms as new technologies and uncovers how these spaces—and their varying levels of public visibility—served as symbols of military authority and political policy. These Cold War artifacts embody commitment to a centralized headquarters, which would fade in the following years.
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