Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance"Mackenzie has achieved a masterful synthesis of engrossing narrative, imaginative concepts, historical perspective, and social concern." Donald MacKenzie follows one line of technology—strategic ballistic missile guidance through a succession of weapons systems to reveal the workings of a world that is neither awesome nor unstoppable. He uncovers the parameters, the pressures, and the politics that make up the complex social construction of an equally complex technology. |
Contents
Inventing a Black Box | 27 |
Engineering a Revolution | 95 |
Epilogue | 106 |
The Beryllium Baby and the Technological | 165 |
Transforming the Fleet Ballistic Missile | 240 |
The Soviet Union and Strategic Missile Guidance | 297 |
The Construction of Technical Facts | 340 |
Patterns in the Web | 382 |
Uninventing the Bomb | 424 |
Appendix C | 440 |
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Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance Donald MacKenzie Limited preview - 1993 |
Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance Donald MacKenzie No preview available - 1993 |
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