The effect of science on the Second World War / Guy Hartcup.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:Houndmills : Macmillan ; 2000الناشر:New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000وصف:xv, 214 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0312228333 (hbk)
- D810.S2 H37 2000
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | D810.S2 H37 2000 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000035367 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | D810.S2 H37 2000 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010000035366 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-204) and index.
1. Organization of Science for War -- 2. Radar: Defence and Offence -- 3. Diverse Applications of Radio and Radar -- 4. Acoustic and Underwater Warfare -- 5. The Acquisition of Signals Intelligence -- 6. Birth of a New Science: Operational Research -- 7. The Transformation of Military Medicine -- 8. Unacceptable Weapons: Gas and Bacteria -- 9. Premature Weapons: the Rocket and the Jet -- 10. The Ultimate Weapon: the Atomic Bomb.
"Although scientists were involved on a limited scale in the First World War, advances made in science and technology between the wars made them indispensable from 1939 to 1945. This was recognized by the Allies but not by the Germans or their partners, who had neglected scientific innovations, hoping to exploit their enemy's unpreparedness by a blitzkrieg.
Consequently, the allies, with superior radar, radio, anti-submarine weapons, computerized cryptanalysis, operational research to improve the quality of equipment, and ability to invent an atomic bomb, put them ahead of the Germans. Not only were physicists required but chemists and bacteriologists, had chemical and biological weapons been used; medical scientists reduced the prevalence of disease in theatres of war and mitigated the effect of wounds.
Other innovations like rockets and jet propulsion, intended to turn the tide for the Germans, came too late to be effective."--BOOK JACKET.