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| Author(s): | G. Hartcup |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| ISBN: | 1403906432 |
| Format: | softback |
| 214pp | |
| Price: | £17.99 |
| Review Date: | 01 July 2003 |
| Review: | Guy Hartcup provides a comparison of the Allied scientific community with that of the enemy and looks at how the intervention of scientists or their devices affected particular operations. Radar, sonar and other underwater weapons, missiles and chemical and biological weapons (never used, but remaining a threat) are covered. The atomic bomb absorbed the energies of the most eminent scientists and, because of it, warfare was irreversibly changed. Chapters describe: the pre-war organization of science; radio and radar; acoustic and underwater warfare; modern signals intelligence; the beginning of operational research; the transformation of military medicine; gas and bacteria weapons; the rocket and the jet; and the atomic bomb. |