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The Surveillance Imperative
Geosciences during the Cold War and Beyond
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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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Index
Page numbers in italics denote information in figures.
Abercrombie, Nigel, 111
ABM Treaty. See Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty
Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AoS), 126
Adamson, Matthew, 13
Admiralty Research Laboratory, 110
Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment (AUWE), 110, 117, 120n14
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), 96–7
AEC. See United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
AEDS. See Atomic Energy Detection System (AEDS)
AERE. See Atomic Energy Research Establishments (AERE)
Aerobees, 173, 175, 175
AFMED. See Allied Forces Mediterranean (AFMED)
AFMSW-1, 71
AFOAT-1, 71, 91
Africa, uranium surveillance, 29
AFTAC. See Technical Applications Center (AFTAC)
Ahlmann, Hans, 129, 133
AIOC, 47, 56
Air Force. See Royal Air Force; United States Air Force
Air Weather Service, 78
Algerian oil, 51
British and American attempts to enter, 52–5
permits for oil exploration, 54
struggles for, 46–9
Allen, James van, 174, 197
Allied Forces Mediterranean (AFMED), 112
Alvarez, Luis, 70
Amaldi, Edoardo, 27
American Astronautical Society, Third Annual Conference, 174–5
American Geophysical Union, 200
American Meteorological Society, 200
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, 46
Antarctic Treaty (1961), 217
Antarctica, 5
Soviets and, 97
Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, 162–3
Antisatellites (ASAT), 147, 158, 164
Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), 108, 110, 114, 117
Antúnez, Pedro Nieto, 113, 114
Apollo, 14
1968–72, 223–4
earth photographs, 213–14, 221
Apollo 8 earthrise, 222, 225
Apollo 13 accident, 222
Apollo 17, “Blue Marble,” 213, 214, 229
Appleyard, Ray, 77
Arabian-American Oil Company (ARAMCO), 46, 48, 49
Arctic, 14. See also sea ice, surveillance and
climate change, 12
Arctic Council, 11
Armstrong, Terence, 126, 128, 132–4...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Introduction Knowing the Enemy, Knowing the Earth
- Section I Surveillance Strategies to Control Natural Resources
- Section II Monitoring the Earth: Nuclear Weapon Programs
- Section III Seeing the Sea—From Above and Below
- Section IV Surveillance Technologies
- Section V From Surveillance to Environmental Monitoring
- Bibliography
- Index