Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
In this fascinating foray into the millennia-long relationship between science and military power, the world's best science communicator (Times Literary Supplement), astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. The overlap is strong, and it's a two- way street, say the authors, because the 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.Spanning early celestial…
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Weitere Autoren: Lang, Avis
- ISBN: 978-0-393-35746-2
- EAN: 9780393357462
- Produktnummer: 30338251
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 592 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.4 cm x D3.4 cm 819 g
- Gewicht: 819
Über den Autor
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History, host of the hit radio and Emmy-nominated TV show StarTalk, and the New York Times best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry and Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military. He lives in New York City.
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