The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite - Couverture souple

Finkbeiner, Ann

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143038478 ISBN 13 : 9780143038474

Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2007

Synopsis

The Jasons are a well-guarded group of world-class scientists, briefly outed in the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, who have been meeting every summer since 1960 to tackle classified problems that the Defense Department cannot solve. Among many stunning innovations, they helped invent our electronic battlefield and Star Wars missile defense technology, and are now looking into ways to improve our intelligence gathering. Recounting the unknown story of these brilliant, stubbornly independent thinkers, Ann Finkbeiner takes advantage of her unprecedented access to this elite group to explore the uncertain bargains between science and politics. It is a story older than Faust and as timely as tomorrow’s headlines.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ann Finkbeiner is a freelance science writer who normally writes about cosmology and who runs the graduate program in science writing at Johns Hopkins University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0143038478
• ISBN 13: 9780143038474
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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