Science on a Mission

Science on a Mission

How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don't Know about the Ocean

Oreskes, Naomi

The University of Chicago Press

10/2022

744

Mole

Inglês

9780226824000

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction

1 The Personal, the Political, and the Scientific

2 Seeing the Ocean through Operational Eyes: The Stommel-Arons Model of Abyssal Circulation

3 Whose Science Is It Anyway? The Woods Hole Palace Revolt

4 Stymied by Secrecy: Harry Hess and Seafloor Spreading

5 The Iron Curtain of Classification: What Difference Did It Make?

6 Why the Navy Built Alvin

7 Painting Projects White: The Discovery of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents

8 From Expertise to Advocacy: The Seabed Disposal of Radioactive Waste

9 Changing the Mission: From the Cold War to Climate Change

Conclusion: The Context of Motivation
Acknowledgments
Sources and Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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oceanography;geophysics;Cold War;US Navy;military science;patronage;agnotology;scientific knowledge;ignorance;secrecy