The Unreliable Nation : Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War /

An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jones-Imhotep, Edward (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Telecommunication systems > Reliability.
Telecommunication policy.
Technology and state.
System failures (Engineering)
National security.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Pannes.
Guerre froide.
Systemes de telecommunications > Canada (Nord) > Fiabilite > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Telecommunications > Politique gouvernementale > Canada > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Politique scientifique et technique > Canada > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Cold War.
Telecommunication systems > Canada, Northern > Reliability > History > 20th century.
National security > Canada > History > 20th century.
Telecommunication policy > Canada > History > 20th century.
Technology and state > Canada > History > 20th century.
Northern Canada.
Canada.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The nature of war
  • Machines and media
  • Reading technologies
  • Hostile environments and cold-war machines
  • Infrastructures and ionograms
  • A natural history of survivable communications
  • Electromagnetic geography and the unreliable nation.

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