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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Tyson, Neil deGrasse.     Subjects     Astronautics, Military -- History.     Astrophysics -- Moral and ethical aspects.     Military research -- United States.     Military art and science -- Technological innovations -- History.     Civil-military relations -- History.     Astrophysics -- Miscellanea.     Science and state -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Tyson, Neil deGrasse.       by title:      Accessory to war : t...       by call number:      358.8 T994a     Search the Web     Tyson, Neil deGrasse.     Astronautics, Military -- History.     Astrophysics -- Moral and ethical aspects.     Military research -- United States.     Military art and science -- Technological innovations -- History.     Civil-military relations -- History.     Astrophysics -- Miscellanea.     Science and state -- United States.       MARC Display

Accessory to war : the unspoken alliance between astrophysics and the military / Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang. by Tyson, Neil deGrasse. W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. Call #: 358.8 T994a Subjects Astronautics, Military -- History.   Astrophysics -- Moral and ethical aspects.   Military research -- United States.   Military art and science -- Technological innovations -- History.   Civil-military relations -- History.   Astrophysics -- Miscellanea.   Science and state -- United States. ISBN:  9780393064445 (hc.) Description:  xiv, 576 p. ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-549) and index. Contents:  Situational awareness -- A time to kill -- Star power -- Sea power -- Arming the eye -- the ultimate high ground -- Unseen, undetected, unspoken -- Detection stories -- Making war, seeking peace -- Space power -- A time to heal. Summary:  Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows in both directions," say the authors, because astrophysicists and military planners care about many of the same things: multi-spectral detection, ranging, tracking, imaging, high ground, nuclear fusion, and access to space. Tyson and Lang call it a "curiously complicit" alliance. "The universe is both the ultimate frontier and the highest of high grounds," they write. "Shared by both space scientists and space warriors, it's a laboratory for one and a battlefield for the other. The explorer wants to understand it; the soldier wants to dominate it. But without the right technology -- which is more or less the same technology for both parties -- nobody can get to it, operate in it, scrutinize it, dominate it, or use it to their advantage and someone else's disadvantage." Spanning early celestial navigation to satellite-enabled warfare, Tyson and Lang examine the intersection of science, technology, industry, and power. Other authors:  Lang, Avis. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 358.8 T994a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 358.8 T994a Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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