Rockets and Ray Guns: The Sci-Fi Science of the Cold War

• Main Author: May, Andrew (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Science and Fiction,
• Subjects: Physics.; Technology.; System safety.; Science-Social aspects.; Popular Science in Physics.; Popular Science in Technology.; Security Science and Technology.; Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education.

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, readers of science fiction (SF) had seen it all before. Sometime...