The Surveillance Imperative [electronic resource] : Geosciences during the Cold War and Beyond /
Turchetti, S.author.
Roberts, P.author.
Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected by historians of science and technology. Using the overarching concept of the "surveillance imperative," this collection of essays offers a new window on the evolution of the environmental sciences during and after the Cold War.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction Knowing the Enemy, Knowing the Earth; Section I Surveillance Strategies to Control Natural Resources; Chapter 1 From the Ground Up: Uranium Surveillance and Atomic Energy in Western Europe; Chapter 2 Underground and Underwater: Oil Security in France and Britain during the Cold War; Section II Monitoring the Earth: Nuclear Weapon Programs; Chapter 3 "Unscare" and Conceal: The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation and the Origin of I
Chapter 4 "In God We Trust, All Others We Monitor": Seismology, Surveillance, and the Test Ban NegotiationsSection III Seeing the Sea-From Above and Below; Chapter 5 Stormy Seas: Anglo-American Negotiations on Ocean Surveillance; Chapter 6 Scientists and Sea Ice under Surveillance in the Early Cold War; Section IV Surveillance Technologies; Chapter 7 Space Technology and the Rise of the US Surveillance State; Chapter 8 Serendipitous Outcomes in Space History: From Space Photography to Environmental Surveillance; Section V From Surveillance to Environmental Monitoring
Chapter 9 Observing the Environmental Turn through the Global Environment Monitoring SystemChapter 10 What Was Whole about the Whole Earth? Cold War and Scientific Revolution; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected by historians of science and technology. Using the overarching concept of the "surveillance imperative," this collection of essays offers a new window on the evolution of the environmental sciences during and after the Cold War.
World politics.
History.
History, Modern.
Earth sciences.
World history.
Political History.
History of Science.
Modern History.
Earth Sciences, general.
World History, Global and Transnational History.