EAN: 9783319898292

SCIENCE AND FICTION ROCKETS AND RAY GUNS THE ...

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. Sometimes reality lived up to the SF vision  at other times it didn't. The
hydrogen bomb was as terrifyingly destructive as anything in fiction  while real-world lasers
didn't come close to the promise of the classic SF ray gun. Nevertheless  when the scientific
Cold War culminated in the Strategic Defence Initiative of the 1980s  it was so
science-fictional in its aspirations that the media dubbed it Star Wars. This entertaining
account  offering a plethora of little known facts and insights from previously classified
military projects  shows how the real-world science of the Cold War followed in the footsteps
of SF - and how the two together changed our perception of both science and scientists  and
paved the way to the world we live in today.

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