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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Electronic Brains,e 20th century: the advent of miniaturized solid-state electronics. Instead, its predictions of sentient humanoid robots and giant, building-sized computers—often bent on world conquest—failed to materialize (in the Cold War timeframe, anyway). In more general terms, however, the science-fictional v

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Weird Science,old War coincides with a sudden upsurge in sightings of unidentified flying objects. Were they extraterrestrial spacecraft, top-secret spyplanes, an exercise in disinformation or just another symptom of Cold War paranoia? Whatever the case, UFOs weren’t the only “weird science” development that look

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Book 2018was taken by surprise. From super-powerful atomic weapons to rockets and space travel, readers of science fiction (SF) had seen it all before.. . Sometimes reality lived up to the SF vision, at other times it didn’t. The hydrogen bomb was as terrifyingly destructive as anything in fiction, while rea

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Electronic Brains,puters—often bent on world conquest—failed to materialize (in the Cold War timeframe, anyway). In more general terms, however, the science-fictional vision of automated warfare was borne out in the guided missiles and defence computers of the Vietnam era.

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Star Wars,ers creating an impenetrable shield against nuclear missiles. The culmination of these ideas was a project the news media referred to as “Star Wars”, after the popular sci-fi movie franchise. Nothing came of it, however, and space-based warfare remained just as science-fictional at the end of the Cold War as it had been at the start.

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Weird Science,xercise in disinformation or just another symptom of Cold War paranoia? Whatever the case, UFOs weren’t the only “weird science” development that looked like it had been plucked straight from the pages of SF. The Cold War also saw serious attempts being made to exploit extra-sensory perception and other superhuman powers to military ends.

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2197-1188 acts and insights from previously classified military projec.The Cold War saw scientists in East and West racing to create amazing new technologies, the like of which the world had never seen. Yet not everyone was taken by surprise. From super-powerful atomic weapons to rockets and space travel, rea

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