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ACCESSORY TO WAR 8211 THE UNSPOKEN A In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and…
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ACCESSORY TO WAR 8211 THE UNSPOKEN A
In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. Tyson and Lang call it a curiously complicit alliance. The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows in both directions, say the authors, because astrophysicists and military planners care about many of the same things: multi-spectral detection, ranging, tracking, imaging, high ground, nuclear fusion, and access to space.
Shared by both space scientists and space warriors, it's a laboratory for one and a battlefield for the other. The universe is both the ultimate frontier and the highest of high grounds, they write. The explorer wants to understand it; the soldier wants to dominate it.
But without the right