Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance

by Donald Angus MacKenzie

Book Overview

Winner of the 1993 Ludwik Fleck Prize presented by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Among books on the arms race, Donald MacKenzie's stands out for its welcome demystification of the "black box" of nuclear weapons technology. MacKenzie follows one line of technology - strategic ballistic missile guidance - through a succession of weapons systems to reveal the ordinary workings of a world that is neither awesome nor unstoppable. He uncovers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262132583
• ISBN13: 9780262132589
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher