Cold War Laboratory - 9781588340863
Un libro in lingua di Collins Martin J. edito da Smithsonian Inst Scholarly Pr, 2002
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In 1946, before the start of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, the Army Air Forces established Project RAND -- a groundbreaking 'think tank' designed to link leaders in the military and aircraft industry. The new organization was a response to fears that long-range bombers, guided missiles, and atomic bombs inaugurated a new era of danger. Modern war was now total war, a contest between entire societies, and demanded the commitment of peacetime preparation.
Science and technology were crucial for such preparation, and RAND offered the Air Force a conduit to the expertise of industry and universities. As an institutional crossroads, RAND became a unique place to experiment with methods and ideas to prepare a pluralistic, democratic society for total war.
Martin J. Collins examines the critical years of this experiment through an evolving cast of key individuals: Hap Arnold and MIT professor Edward L. Bowles; Rowan Gaither, president of the RAND board of trustees; Frank Collbohm and Lawrence Henderson, director and associate director of RAND; and mathematician Edwin Paxson, the leader of RAND's first system analysis -- a RAND invention that sought to make a science of the study of war. Collins presents an in-depth examination of the birth of systems analysis and how it combined science, politics, and postwar concerns.
In developing systems analysis, RAND drew on a spectrum of science and engineering disciplines, and from the fields of economics, political science, and sociology. Its research symbolized the new and far-reaching effects of our response to the Cold War.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Cold War Laboratory
- Sottotitolo: Rand, the Air Force, and the American State, 1945-1950
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Collins Martin J.
- Editore: Smithsonian Inst Scholarly Pr
- Collana: Smithsonian Inst Scholarly Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Novembre '02
- Genere: TECHNOLOGY and ENGINEERING
- Argomenti : Aeronautics, Military Research United States History 20th century Cold War System analysis History 20th century
- Pagine: 256
- Dimensioni mm: 158 x 241 x 25
- EAN-13: 9781588340863