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864435
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Robinson, Samuel A.
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Ocean Science and the British Cold War State /\ Samuel A. Robinson.
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| Publication Statement
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2018]
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, ©2018
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| Series Statement
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Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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3319730967
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: 9783319730967
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3319730959
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9783319730950
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Ocean Science and the British Cold War State; Biographies of Hybrids in the History of Science; Networks of Sea Power; Cold War Oceanography: Literature and Interpretations; The Cold War Surveillance Imperative, Security Dilemma, and Intelligence Challenge; References; Chapter 2: Oceanographers at War; The Hydrographic Office and the Use of Oceanographic Knowledge in Wartime; Military Utility of Oceanography: ASDIC and the Submarine Menace (1940-43); Oceanography at the Admiralty Research Establishments
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Disharmony in Military-Scientific RelationshipsOceanography at the Admiralty Research Laboratory (1944-45); References; Chapter 3: De-mobbing Military Oceanography: Post-War Needs of British Science; "First Round" (1944-46): Planning for the Post-war Needs of Science; Second Round (1946-48): Government Approval and Budgeting for Ocean Science; Third Round (1949-51): Governance of the Institute; References; Chapter 4: Collaboration on Defence, Intelligence, and Internationalism During the 1950s; The NIO at the Admiralty Research Laboratories (ARL)
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NOC (Southampton): National Oceanography Centre Archives, SouthamptonCAC (Cambridge): Churchill College Archive Centre, University of Cambridge; Other Archival Collections; Oral History Interviews; British Library: Oral History of Science; Privately Held Interviews; Index
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The National in the Transnational: The NIO and the International Geophysical YearSpying on Soviet Oceanography; Compromise and International Routes Away from National Challenges; References; Chapter 5: Oceanographers, Surveillance, and Defence Research; Competing Philosophies on Ocean Surveillance; Sea Lines of Communication: Surveillance of the Gibraltar Strait; Global Seas, Global Surveillance: The GIUK Gap; Ocean Surveillance and Oceanography; References; Chapter 6: Militant Oceanographers: Behind Britain's "Technocratic" Moment, 1958-64; Promoting the Gospel of Marine Science
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'We Can Go on If We Are Not Fitted into a Treasury Straitjacket'50The Universe's First Minister for Science79; Change in Whitehall; References; Chapter 7: New Frontiers of Oceanology and "Environmentalism"; Redefining the Mission of Oceanography; Crafting Oceanology; The Military Twist to Environmental Research; References; Chapter 8: Epilogue: The Retirement of George Deacon; Chapter 9: Conclusion: Situating Britain and the Sea in the Cold War; Note on Archival Resources; TNA (London): The National Archives, UK, Kew Gardens, London
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"This book focuses on the activities of the scientific staff of the British National Institute of Oceanography during the Cold War. Revealing how issues such as intelligence gathering, environmental surveillance, the identification of 'enemy science', along with administrative practice informed and influenced the Institute's Cold War program. In turn, this program helped shape decisions taken by Government, military and the civil service towards science in post-war Britain. This was not simply a case of government ministers choosing to patronize particular scientists, but a relationship between politics and science that profoundly impacted on the future of ocean science in Britain."--
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Cold War-- Influence.
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Military oceanography-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.
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Military oceanography.
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SCIENCE-- Earth Sciences-- Geography.
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SCIENCE-- Earth Sciences-- Geology.
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War-- Influence.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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551.460941
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| LC Classification
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V396.5.G7
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