Book ID: CBB001020378

A Nuclear Winter's Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s (2009)

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Badash, Lawrence (Author)


MIT Press
Publication date: 2009
Language: English


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: xiii + 403 pp.; bibl.; index

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Authors & Contributors
Gordin, Michael D.
Bernstein, Barton J.
Dörries, Matthias
Greene, Benjamin Patrick
Jacobs, Robert Alan
Martin-Nielsen, Janet
Journals
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Technology and Culture
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Journal of Contemporary History
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Cornell University Press
Harvard University
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
I. B. Tauris
Naval Institute Press
Stanford University Press
Concepts
Cold War
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Science and politics
Science and war; science and the military
Arms race
Climate and climatology
People
Rabinowitch, Eugene
Sagan, Carl
Stalin, Joseph
Truman, Harry S.
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Wiesner, Jerome B.
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Canada
Europe
Russia
Greenland
Institutions
United States Air Force (USAF)
United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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