Accessory to war : the unspoken alliance between astrophysics and the military
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Accessory to war : the unspoken alliance between astrophysics and the military
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The work Accessory to war : the unspoken alliance between astrophysics and the military represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Accessory to war : the unspoken alliance between astrophysics and the military
- Title remainder
- the unspoken alliance between astrophysics and the military
- Statement of responsibility
- Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang
- Subject
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- Military art and science -- Technological innovations | History
- trueMilitary planning
- trueMilitary-industrial complex
- Nonfiction
- truePolicy sciences
- trueResearch
- trueScience
- Science -- Social aspects
- trueTechnological innovations
- Astronautics, Military -- History
- trueAstrophysics
- trueDefense industry and trade
- trueMilitary art and science
- trueMilitary engineering
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows in both directions," say the authors, because astrophysicists and military planners care about many of the same things: multi-spectral detection, ranging, tracking, imaging, high ground, nuclear fusion, and access to space. Tyson and Lang call it a "curiously complicit" alliance. "The universe is both the ultimate frontier and the highest of high grounds," they write. "Shared by both space scientists and space warriors, it's a laboratory for one and a battlefield for the other. The explorer wants to understand it; the soldier wants to dominate it. But without the right technology which is more or less the same technology for both parties--nobody can get to it, operate in it, scrutinize it, dominate it, or use it to their advantage and someone else's disadvantage."
- Dewey number
- 358/.8
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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