Titlebook: Rockets and Ray Guns: The Sci-Fi Science of the Cold War; Andrew May Book 2018 Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Natu

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2197-1188 cts, shows how the real-world science of the Cold War followed in the footsteps of SF – and how the two together changed our perception of both science and scientists, and paved the way to the world we live in today...978-3-319-89829-2978-3-319-89830-8Series ISSN 2197-1188 Series E-ISSN 2197-1196

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Mind Games,ines and mind-control drugs—the success or failure of which is largely a matter of opinion. The same period also saw science fiction itself exploited for propaganda purposes, while popular SF tropes like antigravity provided suitably opposition-confusing material for the Cold War disinformation specialists.

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Future Shock,In which the Cold War comes to an end, somewhat sooner and less dramatically than most science fiction writers had expected. Nevertheless, SF got many things right, and by the end of the Cold War the world took the genre—with its vision of a future defined by scientific and technological progress—far more seriously than it had at the start.

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Andrew MayVividly portrays how Science Fiction anticipated many of the key scientific developments of the Cold War.Offers a plethora of little known facts and insights from previously classified military projec

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978-3-319-89829-2Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

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Rockets and Ray Guns: The Sci-Fi Science of the Cold War978-3-319-89830-8Series ISSN 2197-1188 Series E-ISSN 2197-1196

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89830-8Nuclear weapons; Rocket science; 20th century science fiction; strategic defence initiative; nuclear par

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The Super-Bomb,fiction authors, on the other hand, became fascinated with the idea of atomic power and its potential to create awesome new super-weapons. Eventually the rest of the world caught up, and science fiction became science fact when the atom bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But instead of ushering i

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Journey into Space, rockets make it a practical possibility. Coming of age at the very outset of the Cold War, such rockets were snapped up by both sides for use as military weapons—but only one side took the space angle seriously. With the launch of Sputnik 1, the Soviets won a race the Americans barely knew existed.