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Simulating the Unthinkable: Gaming Future War in the 1950s and 1960s (2000)

Ghamari-Tabrizi, Sharon (Author)

Social Studies of Science
Volume: 30
Pages: 163--224
Publication date: 2000
Language: English

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Description Examines the challenge and the criticism of the U.S. civilian defense analysts of the 1950s who recognized the non-scientific and irrational nature of future war planning in their simulation and game designs.

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