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Author | : Sharon Weinberger |
Publisher | : Nation Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-05-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781568583297 |
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The story of how a lunatic fringe science project became favored by Rumsfeld's Pentagon.
Author | : Sharon Weinberger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781560258490 |
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Traces the work of a team of fringe scientists who are working on "isomer weapon" technology--a grenade-sized bomb capable of atomic-level destruction--in an account that discusses the exorbitant amounts of money allocated by the Pentagon for its development and the scientific battle being waged between military officials and top nuclear scientists.
Author | : Sharon Weinberger |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2018-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804169721 |
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The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly sixty years. Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, the agency’s original mission was to create “the unimagined weapons of the future.” Over the decades, DARPA has been responsible for countless inventions and technologies that extend well beyond military technology. Sharon Weinberger gives us a riveting account of DARPA’s successes and failures, its remarkable innovations, and its wild-eyed schemes. We see how the threat of nuclear Armageddon sparked investment in computer networking, leading to the Internet, as well as to a proposal to power a missile-destroying particle beam by draining the Great Lakes. We learn how DARPA was responsible during the Vietnam War for both Agent Orange and the development of the world’s first armed drones, and how after 9/11 the agency sparked a national controversy over surveillance with its data-mining research. And we see how DARPA’s success with self-driving cars was followed by disappointing contributions to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Weinberger has interviewed more than one hundred former Pentagon officials and scientists involved in DARPA’s projects—many of whom have never spoken publicly about their work with the agency—and pored over countless declassified records from archives around the country, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, and exclusive materials provided by sources. The Imagineers of War is a compelling and groundbreaking history in which science, technology, and politics collide.
Author | : Matthew Grant |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2016-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526101335 |
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This collection offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had imaginations of nuclear devastation as one of its main battlegrounds. The book includes survey chapters and case studies on Western Europe, the USSR, Japan and the USA. Looking at various strands of intellectual debate and at different media, from documentary film to fiction, the chapters demonstrate the difficulties to make the unthinkable and unimaginable - nuclear apocalypse - imaginable. The book will be required reading for everyone who wants to understand the cultural dynamics of the Cold War through the angle of its core ingredient, nuclear weapons.
Author | : Eric N. Hebden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Firearms |
ISBN | : 9780723506959 |
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Author | : Fredric H. Britton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1910 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Paul Scharre |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2018-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393608999 |
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Winner of the 2019 William E. Colby Award "The book I had been waiting for. I can't recommend it highly enough." —Bill Gates The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other high tech weapons systems—from Israel’s Harpy drone to the American submarine-hunting robot ship Sea Hunter—and examines the legal and ethical issues surrounding their use. “A smart primer to what’s to come in warfare” (Bruce Schneier), Army of None engages military history, global policy, and cutting-edge science to explore the implications of giving weapons the freedom to make life and death decisions. A former soldier himself, Scharre argues that we must embrace technology where it can make war more precise and humane, but when the choice is life or death, there is no replacement for the human heart.
Author | : Joseph Laycock |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2015-02-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0520284917 |
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The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that these games were not only psychologically dangerous but an occult religion masquerading as a game. Dangerous Games explores both the history and the sociological significance of this panic. Fantasy role-playing games do share several functions in common with religion. However, religionÑas a socially constructed world of shared meaningÑcan also be compared to a fantasy role-playing game. In fact, the claims of the moral entrepreneurs, in which they presented themselves as heroes battling a dark conspiracy, often resembled the very games of imagination they condemned as evil. By attacking the imagination, they preserved the taken-for-granted status of their own socially constructed reality. Interpreted in this way, the panic over fantasy-role playing games yields new insights about how humans play and together construct and maintain meaningful worlds. LaycockÕs clear and accessible writing ensures that Dangerous Games will be required reading for those with an interest in religion, popular culture, and social behavior, both in the classroom and beyond.
Author | : Maryann Siembieda |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Weapons |
ISBN | : 9780916211653 |
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Author | : Rufus King |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2015-03-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1479402788 |
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