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Title:
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The surveillance imperative : geosciences during the Cold War and beyond /
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Authors:
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Simone Turchetti, Editor ;
Peder Roberts, Editor
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Material Type:
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book
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Publisher:
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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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Series:
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Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology
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ISBN / ISSN / EAN :
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978-1-137-43872-0
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Size:
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xii, 278 pages / illustrations / 24 cm
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Bibliography note:
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-263) and index
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Languages:
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English
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Class number:
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G70.4
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Subjects:
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Artificial satellites in remote sensing
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Electronic surveillance--History--20th century
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Environmental monitoring--History
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Military surveillance--History--20th century
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Remote sensing images
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Space surveillance--History--20th century
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Description:
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Contents note:
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From the ground up : uranium surveillance and atomic energy in Western Europe / Matthew Adamson, Lino Camprubì and Simone Turchetti -- Underground and underwater : oil security in France and Britain during the cold War / Roberto Cantoni and Leucha Veneer -- "Unscare" and conceal : the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation and the origin of international radiation monitoring / Nestor Herran -- "In God we trust. All others we monitor" : seismology, surveillance and the test ban negotiations / Simone Turchetti -- Stormy seas : Anglo-American negotiations on ocean surveillance / Sam Robinson -- Scientists and sea ice under surveillance in the early Cold War / Peder Roberts -- Space technology and the rise of the U.S. surveillance state / Roger D. Launius -- Serendipitous outcomes in space history : from space photography to environmental surveillance / Sebastian Vincent Grevsmühl -- Observing the environmental turn through the global environment monitoring system / Soraya Boudia -- What was whole about the whole earth? : how the earth sciences saw their subject during the Cold War and beyond / Robert Poole
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