The Effect of Science on the Second World War

G. Hartcup (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

214 Seiten

2000 | 1st ed. 2000
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-39876-8 (ISBN)

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The latest advances in science were fully exploited in the Second World War. They included radar, sonar, improved radio, methods of reducing disease, primitive computers, the new science of operational research and, finally, the atomic bomb, necessarily developed like all wartime technology in a remarkably short time. Such progress would have been impossible without the cooperation of Allied scientists with the military. The Axis powers' failure to recognise this was a major factor in their defeat.

GUY HARTCUP served in the British and Indian Armies 1939-45 after which he took an Honours Degree at Cambridge in 1947. From 1948-60 we worked as an Historian in the Air Historical Branch of the Air Ministry. He then became an English editor with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna from 1961-2. After returning to England the author was an Assistant Historian in the Cabinet Office Historical Section and, finally, was Historian in the Treasury from 1965-76. His books include Code Name Mulberry: the Planning, Building and Operation of the Normandy Harbours; Camouflage: a History of Concealment and Deception in War; Cockroft and the Atom (with T. E. Allibone); The War in Invention: Scientific Developments, 1914-18; The Silent Revolution: Development of Conventional Weapons, 1945-85; Operational Research in the RAF; and The Challenge of War: Scientific and Engineering Contributions to World War Two.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Organisation of Science for War Radar: Defence and Offence Diverse Applications of Radio and Radar Acoustic and Underwater Warfare The Acquisition of Signals Intelligence Birth of a New Science: Operational Research The Transformation of Military Medicine Unacceptable Weapons: Gas and Bacteria Premature Weapons: The Rocket and the Jet The Ultimate Weapon: The Atomic Bomb Conclusion Sources Bibliography Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	8 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Technik ► Maschinenbau
Schlagworte	atomic bomb • Computer • Cooperation • Defence • Disease • Intelligence • Medicine • organization • Radio • Research • Science • Technology • Transformation • war • Weapons
ISBN-10	1-349-39876-4 / 1349398764
ISBN-13	978-1-349-39876-8 / 9781349398768
Zustand	Neuware