Spies in the Sky Surveillance Satellites in War and Peace /

• Main Author: Norris, Pat (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Praxis, 2008.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Popular works.; Space sciences.; Astronomy.; Engineering.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Engineering, general.

In Spies in the Sky Patrick Norris responds to the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the dawn of the Space Age – the launch of Sputnik 1 – with a review of the most important historical applications of space science for the benefit of the human race during that half century, focusing particularly...

Table of Contents:

• Sputnik
• After 50 years—satellites in our daily lives
• Cold War nuclear stand-off
• Spy satellites
• Problems of verifying an Arms Limitation Treaty
• The road to SALT-I
• SALT-II
• The other Cold War nuclear powers—China, the UK, France
• After the Cold War—regional tensions
• What the future holds.