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The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and Beyond

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Author(s): Simone Turchetti, Peder Roberts (eds.)
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2014

Language: English
Tags: Political History; History of Science; Modern History; Earth Sciences, general; World History, Global and Transnational History

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
From the Ground Up: Uranium Surveillance and Atomic Energy in Western Europe....Pages 23-44
Underground and Underwater: Oil Security in France and Britain during the Cold War....Pages 45-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
“Unscare” and Conceal: The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation and the Origin of International Radiation Monitoring....Pages 69-84
“In God We Trust, All Others We Monitor”: Seismology, Surveillance, and the Test Ban Negotiations....Pages 85-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Stormy Seas: Anglo-American Negotiations on Ocean Surveillance....Pages 105-124
Scientists and Sea Ice under Surveillance in the Early Cold War....Pages 125-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Space Technology and the Rise of the US Surveillance State....Pages 147-170
Serendipitous Outcomes in Space History: From Space Photography to Environmental Surveillance....Pages 171-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Observing the Environmental Turn through the Global Environment Monitoring System....Pages 195-212
What Was Whole about the Whole Earth? Cold War and Scientific Revolution....Pages 213-235
Back Matter....Pages 237-278