The Surveillance Imperative

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Simone Turchetti, Peder Roberts

      Pages 1-19

3. Surveillance Strategies to Control Natural Resources

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. From the Ground Up: Uranium Surveillance and Atomic Energy in Western Europe

      • Matthew Adamson, Lino Cambrubí, Simone Turchetti

      Pages 23-44

   3. Underground and Underwater: Oil Security in France and Britain during the Cold War

      • Roberto Cantoni, Leucha Veneer

      Pages 45-66

4. Monitoring the Earth: Nuclear Weapon Programs

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. “Unscare” and Conceal: The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation and the Origin of International Radiation Monitoring

      • Néstor Herran

      Pages 69-84

   3. “In God We Trust, All Others We Monitor”: Seismology, Surveillance, and the Test Ban Negotiations

      • Simone Turchetti

      Pages 85-102

5. Seeing the Sea—From Above and Below

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Stormy Seas: Anglo-American Negotiations on Ocean Surveillance

      • Sam Robinson

      Pages 105-124

   3. Scientists and Sea Ice under Surveillance in the Early Cold War

      • Peder Roberts

      Pages 125-144

6. Surveillance Technologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Space Technology and the Rise of the US Surveillance State

      • Roger D. Launius

      Pages 147-170

   3. Serendipitous Outcomes in Space History: From Space Photography to Environmental Surveillance

      • Sebastian Vincent Grevsmühl

      Pages 171-191

7. From Surveillance to Environmental Monitoring

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193

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   2. Observing the Environmental Turn through the Global Environment Monitoring System

      • Soraya Boudia

      Pages 195-212

   3. What Was Whole about the Whole Earth? Cold War and Scientific Revolution

      • Robert Poole

      Pages 213-235

8. Back Matter

   Pages 237-278

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Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected by historians of science and technology. Using the overarching concept of the "surveillance imperative," this collection of essays offers a new window on the evolution of the environmental sciences during and after the Cold War.

• Cold War
• environment
• evolution
• geoscience
• history
• seismology

“Individual essays could be useful assigned reading in advanced university courses in history of science, technology, and the Cold War … . Academic historians and policy analysts will find in this text a trove of information about the remarkably expansive use of planetary science data during the Cold War and valuable context for the current, politically charged debate over big data surveillance that represents the legacy of these earlier programs.” (Lisa Ruth Rand, Quest, Vol. 23 (1), 2016)

• Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, UK

  Simone Turchetti

• Division of History of Science, Technology, and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  Peder Roberts

Matthew Adamson, McDaniel College, Hungary Soraya Boudia, University Paris-Est, Marne la Vallée, France. Lino Camprubí, University Autónoma of Barcelona, Spain. Roberto Cantoni, University of Manchester, UK. James R. Fleming, Colby College, USA. Sebastian Grevsmühl, UPMC, France. Néstor Herran, UPMC, France Roger Launius, Smithsonian Institution, USA. Robert Poole, University of Central Lancashire, UK. Sam Robinson, CHSTM, University of Manchester, UK.

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