Spying without spies
Subtitle: origins of America's secret nuclear surveillance system
By: Charles A. Ziegler and David Jacobson.
Contributors: Jacobson, David.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Detection -- History.; Military surveillance -- United States -- History.
Description: This book provides the first documented description of the genesis and institutionalization of America's nuclear surveillance system. It traces the development of covert technical methods for assessing the nuclear capability of foreign powers from the introduction of these techniques in World War II to 1949, when they were successfully employed to detect the test of Russia's first atomic bomb.

Ziegler and Jacobson examine the planning for the system as well as the technical and organizational obstacles that had to be overcome before it could be implemented. They describe the government decision-making processes and the ways individuals and groups with different beliefs and interests were mobilized in support of the program. They also explore the relationships between the intelligence and scientific communities that were forged in this process.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-227) and index.