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Author MacKenzie, Donald A.

Title Inventing accuracy : an historical sociology of nuclear missile guidance / Donald MacKenzie
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1990]
©1990

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 W'PONDS  358.174 Mac/Iaa  AVAILABLE
Description xiii, 464 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Inside technology
Inside technology.
Contents 1. A historical sociology of nuclear missile guidance -- 2. Inventing a black box -- 3. Engineering a revolution -- 4. The Beryllium baby and the technological trajectory -- 5. Transforming the fleet ballistic missile -- 6. The Soviet Union and strategic missile guidance -- 7. The construction of technical facts -- 8. Patterns in the web -- Epilogue: Uninventing the bomb -- Appendixes: -- A. Estimated accuracies of American and Soviet strategic ballistic missiles -- B. The conventional mathematics of attacks on point targets -- C. List of those interviewed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Ballistic missiles -- United States -- Guidance systems -- History
Nuclear warfare.
Nuclear weapons -- United States -- History.
SUBJECT United States -- Military policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140379
LC no. 90005915
ISBN 0262132583