History Department Self-study Report, March 15, 1963
Author : University of Alabama. Department of History
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : University of Alabama. Department of History
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
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Page : 398 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Economic surveys
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Publisher : Worthy Shorts Inc
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
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ISBN : 1935340220
Author : David Stumpf
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1557286019
The Titan II ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) program was developed by the United States military to bolster the size, strength, and speed of the nation's strategic weapons arsenal in the 1950s and 1960s. Each missile carried a single warhead—the largest in U.S. inventory—used liquid fuel propellants, and was stored and launched from hardened underground silos. The missiles were deployed at basing facilities in Arkansas, Arizona, and Kansas and remained in active service for over twenty years. Since military deactivation in the early 1980s, the Titan II has served as a reliable satellite launch vehicle. This is the richly detailed story of the Titan II missile and the men and women who developed and operated the system. David K. Stumpf uses a wide range of sources, drawing upon interviews with and memoirs by engineers and airmen as well as recently declassified government documents and other public materials. Over 170 drawings and photographs, most of which have never been published, enhance the narrative. The three major accidents of the program are described in detail for the first time using authoritative sources. Titan II will be welcomed by librarians for its prodigious reference detail, by technology history professionals and laymen, and by the many civilian and Air Force personnel who were involved in the program—a deterrent weapons system that proved to be successful in defending America from nuclear attack.
Author : United States. Congress
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Page : 2178 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
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Author : United States. Congress Senate
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Page : 2674 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
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Category : United States
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Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Page : 792 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Government publications
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Author : United States. Congress. House
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Page : 2446 pages
File Size : 38,2 MB
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Category : United States
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Author : Rebecca S. Lowen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520917903
The "cold war university" is the academic component of the military-industrial-academic complex, and its archetype, according to Rebecca Lowen, is Stanford University. Her book challenges the conventional wisdom that the post-World War II "multiversity" was created by military patrons on the one hand and academic scientists on the other and points instead to the crucial role played by university administrators in making their universities dependent upon military, foundation, and industrial patronage. Contesting the view that the "federal grant university" originated with the outpouring of federal support for science after the war, Lowen shows how the Depression had put financial pressure on universities and pushed administrators to seek new modes of funding. She also details the ways that Stanford administrators transformed their institution to attract patronage. With the end of the cold war and the tightening of federal budgets, universities again face pressures not unlike those of the 1930s. Lowen's analysis of how the university became dependent on the State is essential reading for anyone concerned about the future of higher education in the post-cold war era.
Author : United States. Air Force. Office of the Chief of Chaplains
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Page : 262 pages
File Size : 19,94 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Government publications
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