A nuclear winter's tale : science and politics in the 1980s / Lawrence Badash.
نوع المادة : نصالسلاسل:Transformations : studies in the history of science and technologyالناشر:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2009]تاريخ حقوق النشر: copyright 2009وصف:xiii, 403 pages ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780262012720 (hbk)
- 0262012723 (hbk)
- QC794.98 B325 2009
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | QC794.98 B325 2009 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000012183 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | QC794.98 B325 2009 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010000012188 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Background -- 1. Nuclear Peril -- 2. Scientific Disciplines in Isolation, 1: Those with Obvious Connections to Nuclear War -- 3. Scientific Disciplines in Isolation, 2: Those with less Obvious Connections to Nuclear War -- II. Science, Politics, and Carl Sagan: Through 1983 -- 4. The Origin of Nuclear Winter -- 5. Publicity -- 6. Concern about the Good Name of Science - and with Getting the Message Across -- 7. Politics and the Arms Race -- 8. Policy and the Arms Race -- III. A Cold Day in Hell: Activities and Antagonisms, 1984-85 -- 9. More Publicity -- 10. Inside the Beltway, 1984 -- 11. Bureaucracy and Bickering -- 12. Inside the Beltway, 1985 -- 13. A Frenzy of Research -- 14. Report after Report -- 15. Looking at Moscow -- 16. Strategic Analyses -- 17. More Policy Questions -- 18. Other Voices, and Some Echoes -- IV. Smoldering Issues: 1986 and Afterward -- 19. Scientific Progress and Controversy -- 20. Politics and Policy -- 21. Evaluation.