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A Nuclear Winter's Tale : Science and Politics in The 1980s.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (422 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262258531
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Nuclear Winter's TaleLOC classification:
  • QC794.98.B325 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 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 -- 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 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: The rise and fall of the concept of nuclear winter, played out in research activity, public relations, and Reagan-era politics.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 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 -- 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 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.

The rise and fall of the concept of nuclear winter, played out in research activity, public relations, and Reagan-era politics.

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