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Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance

Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance - Paperback

by Donald MacKenzie
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Availability:In StockContributor:Donald MacKenzieSeries:Inside TechnologyAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1993-01-29Pages:480
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262631471ISBN-10:262631474UPC:9780262631471Book Category:Political Science, Technology & Engineering, HistoryBook Subcategory:Security (National & International), Military Science, MilitaryBook Topic:Nuclear WarfareSize:8.91 x 5.99 x 1.05 inchesWeight:1.6821Product ID:SC4NT7MFRQ
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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262631471ISBN-10:262631474UPC:9780262631471Book Category:Political Science, Technology & Engineering, HistoryBook Subcategory:Security (National & International), Military Science, MilitaryBook Topic:Nuclear WarfareSize:8.91 x 5.99 x 1.05 inchesWeight:1.6821Product ID:SC4NT7MFRQ
Donald MacKenzie is Professor of Sociology (Personal Chair) at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Inventing Accuracy (1990), Knowing Machines (1996), and Mechanizing Proof (2001), all published by the MIT Press. Portions of An Engine, not a Camera won the Viviana A. Zelizer Prize in economic sociology from the American Sociological Association.
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