Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance

by Donald Angus MacKenzie

Book Overview

"Mackenzie has achieved a masterful synthesis of engrossing narrative, imaginative concepts, historical perspective, and social concern."

Donald MacKenzie follows one line of technology--strategic ballistic missile guidance through a succession of weapons systems to reveal the workings of a world that is neither awesome nor unstoppable. He uncovers the parameters, the pressures, and the politics that make up the complex social construction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262631474
• ISBN13: 9780262631471
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher