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By David Jacobson,Charles A. Ziegler

ISBN-10: 0275950492

ISBN-13: 9780275950491

This is the 1st description of the formation of America's nulcear surveillance process. Drawing on interviews with individuals and the little documentation on hand below the liberty of knowledge Act, Ziegler and Jacobson inform a narrative now not informed prior to. They shed new gentle on questions raised in previous interpretations of the early chilly struggle years and display the origins of a surveillance task that's implied, yet no longer defined, in present day headlines.

This e-book presents the 1st documented description of the genesis and institutionalization of America's nuclear surveillance process. It strains the improvement of covert technical equipment for assessing the nuclear strength of overseas powers from the creation of those strategies in international conflict II to 1949, once they have been effectively hired to notice the attempt of Russia's first atomic bomb. Ziegler and Jacobson study the making plans for the approach in addition to the technical and organizational stumbling blocks that needed to be conquer sooner than it may be applied. They describe the govt. decision-making techniques and the methods participants and teams with diverse ideals and pursuits have been mobilized in aid of this system. in addition they discover the relationships among the intelligence and medical groups that have been solid during this process.

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