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- Book Title
- Stealth : the Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
- Publication Name
- Stealth
- Title
- Stealth
- Subtitle
- The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0190677449
- EAN
- 9780190677442
- ISBN
- 9780190677442
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, History
- Topic
- Military Science, United States / 20th Century, Military / Strategy, Military / General, Military / United States
- Release Year
- 2020
- Release Date
- 09/04/2020
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 6.4in
- Item Width
- 9.3in
- Item Weight
- 0 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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In Stealth: The Secret Race to Invent an Invisible Aircraft Peter Westwick reveals the process by which the U.S. military was able to produce this undetectable machine, first in the form of the F-117A, then the B-2 bomber, one sharply angular and the other smooth and round. Taking into account the role of technology, as well as the contemporary understanding of physics and engineering, Westwick offers a unique narrative, one which immerses readers in the race to produce a weapon that might save the world from nuclear Apocalypse. Stealth is a nuanced and engaging narrative about engineering ingenuity and provides a fresh view of the Cold War period.
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0190677449
ISBN-13
9780190677442
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038286004
Product Key Features
Book Title
Stealth : the Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Military Science, United States / 20th Century, Military / Strategy, Military / General, Military / United States
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Technology & Engineering, History
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.4in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
9.3in
Item Weight
0 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Ug1242.S73w47 2020
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"The U.S. innovation system fostered different approaches to a specific problem, and stealth mobilized a huge amount of talent and human energy- like many high-tech Cold War ventures. Historians of business, technology, and the military as well as sociologists will find Stealth richly rewarding." -- Dimitrios Ziakkas, Dimitrios Ziakkas is an assistant professor in the School of Aviation and Transportation Technology at Purdue University.,Technology and Culture"[A] valuable contribution to Cold War history." -- Tom Ricks"In his elegant Stealth, Peter Westwick balanc[es] a modest level of technical detail with a keen eye for the people involved, drawing on extensive interviews and oral histories. The vividness Mr. Westwick achieves is all the more impressive given the secrecy of the stealth world." -- Konstantin Kakaes, The Wall Street Journal"A rich, compelling, and eye-opening book." -- Daniel J. Kevles, author of The Physicists"Westwick does a good job of explaining the engineering principles at work, the competitive instinct of the engineersDLwhich motivated them more than did a patriotic desire to gain the upper hand over the Soviet UnionDLand the advantages of a close partnership between the private sector and the state." -- Lawrence Freedman, Foreign Affairs"This concise, highly readable history of the creation, development, and application of one of the most important technologies of the Cold War brings clarity and a thorough understanding to this complex subject." -- F. Robert van der Linden, Science, "[A] valuable contribution to Cold War history." -- Tom Ricks "In his elegant Stealth, Peter Westwick balanc[es] a modest level of technical detail with a keen eye for the people involved, drawing on extensive interviews and oral histories. The vividness Mr. Westwick achieves is all the more impressive given the secrecy of the stealth world." -- Konstantin Kakaes, The Wall Street Journal "A rich, compelling, and eye-opening book." -- Daniel J. Kevles, author of The Physicists "Westwick does a good job of explaining the engineering principles at work, the competitive instinct of the engineers--which motivated them more than did a patriotic desire to gain the upper hand over the Soviet Union--and the advantages of a close partnership between the private sector and the state." -- Lawrence Freedman, Foreign Affairs "This concise, highly readable history of the creation, development, and application of one of the most important technologies of the Cold War brings clarity and a thorough understanding to this complex subject." -- F. Robert van der Linden, Science, "A lucid and lively account of the achievement of what many thought impossible and resisted - sizable attack aircraft essentially invisible to radar. Westwick writes the story of the Stealth bombers on the expansive canvas of southern California, drawing in the security-veiled iconoclasm of the region's aerospace enterprise, the strategic thinking of its post-Vietnam military patrons, the innovations enabled by both computing and technical intuition, the passionate obsession of the physicists and engineers who envisioned the aircraft, and the differences in the technological cultures between Lockheed and Northrop, the ferociously competitive corporations where they turned their ideas into two divergent flight-ready realities. A rich, compelling, and eye-opening book." --Daniel J. Kevles, Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University, author of The Physicists "As Peter Westwick notes in his elegant Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft, U.S. wartime radar research was bigger than the Manhattan Project. Westwick's stated goal is to write the story of the engineers and midlevel military officers who champion new military technologies history from the middle (a term he borrows from the historian Paul Kennedy ). Mr. Westwick pulls it off by balancing a modest level of technical detail with a keen eye for the people involved, drawing on extensive interviews and oral histories. The vividness Mr. Westwick achieves is all the more impressive given the secrecy of the stealth world." --Konstantin Kakaes, The Wall Street Journal, "The U.S. innovation system fostered different approaches to a specific problem, and stealth mobilized a huge amount of talent and human energy- like many high-tech Cold War ventures. Historians of business, technology, and the military as well as sociologists will find Stealth richly rewarding." -- Dimitrios Ziakkas, Dimitrios Ziakkas is an assistant professor in the School of Aviation and Transportation Technology at Purdue University., Technology and Culture"[A] valuable contribution to Cold War history." -- Tom Ricks"In his elegant Stealth, Peter Westwick balanc[es] a modest level of technical detail with a keen eye for the people involved, drawing on extensive interviews and oral histories. The vividness Mr. Westwick achieves is all the more impressive given the secrecy of the stealth world." -- Konstantin Kakaes, The Wall Street Journal"A rich, compelling, and eye-opening book." -- Daniel J. Kevles, author of The Physicists"Westwick does a good job of explaining the engineering principles at work, the competitive instinct of the engineersDLwhich motivated them more than did a patriotic desire to gain the upper hand over the Soviet UnionDLand the advantages of a close partnership between the private sector and the state." -- Lawrence Freedman, Foreign Affairs"This concise, highly readable history of the creation, development, and application of one of the most important technologies of the Cold War brings clarity and a thorough understanding to this complex subject." -- F. Robert van der Linden, Science, "A lucid and lively account of the achievement of what many thought impossible and resisted - sizable attack aircraft essentially invisible to radar. Westwick writes the story of the Stealth bombers on the expansive canvas of southern California, drawing in the security-veiled iconoclasm of the region's aerospace enterprise, the strategic thinking of its post-Vietnam military patrons, the innovations enabled by both computing and technical intuition, the passionate obsession of the physicists and engineers who envisioned the aircraft, and the differences in the technological cultures between Lockheed and Northrop, the ferociously competitive corporations where they turned their ideas into two divergent flight-ready realities. A rich, compelling, and eye-opening book." --Daniel J. Kevles, Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University, author of The Physicists "As Peter Westwick notes in his elegant Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft, U.S. wartime radar research was bigger than the Manhattan Project. Westwick's stated goal is to write the story of the engineers and midlevel military officers who champion new military technologies history from the middle (a term he borrows from the historian Paul Kennedy ). Mr. Westwick pulls it off by balancing a modest level of technical detail with a keen eye for the people involved, drawing on extensive interviews and oral histories. The vividness Mr. Westwick achieves is all the more impressive given the secrecy of the stealth world." --Konstantin Kakaes, The Wall Street Journal "In his excellent new book, Stealth, Peter Westwick argues that the solution was the product of a host of special circumstances, fortuitous geography, and the aggregation of thousands of innovative and highly skilled individuals in Southern California. This concise, highly readable history of the creation, development, and application of one of the most important technologies of the Cold War brings clarity and a thorough understanding to this complex subject." --F. Robert van der Linden, Science Magazine, "The U.S. innovation system fostered different approaches to a specific problem, and stealth mobilized a huge amount of talent and human energy- like many high-tech Cold War ventures. Historians of business, technology, and the military as well as sociologists will find Stealth richly rewarding." -- Dimitrios Ziakkas, Dimitrios Ziakkas is an assistant professor in the School of Aviation and Transportation Technology at Purdue University., Technology and Culture "[A] valuable contribution to Cold War history." -- Tom Ricks "In his elegant Stealth, Peter Westwick balanc[es] a modest level of technical detail with a keen eye for the people involved, drawing on extensive interviews and oral histories. The vividness Mr. Westwick achieves is all the more impressive given the secrecy of the stealth world." -- Konstantin Kakaes, The Wall Street Journal "A rich, compelling, and eye-opening book." -- Daniel J. Kevles, author of The Physicists "Westwick does a good job of explaining the engineering principles at work, the competitive instinct of the engineers--which motivated them more than did a patriotic desire to gain the upper hand over the Soviet Union--and the advantages of a close partnership between the private sector and the state." -- Lawrence Freedman, Foreign Affairs "This concise, highly readable history of the creation, development, and application of one of the most important technologies of the Cold War brings clarity and a thorough understanding to this complex subject." -- F. Robert van der Linden, Science, "The U.S. innovation system fostered different approaches to a specific problem, and stealth mobilized a huge amount of talent and human energy- like many high-tech Cold War ventures. Historians of business, technology, and the military as well as sociologists will find Stealth richly rewarding." -- Dimitrios Ziakkas, Dimitrios Ziakkas is an assistant professor in the School of Aviation and Transportation Technology at Purdue University., Technology and Culture"[A] valuable contribution to Cold War history." -- Tom Ricks"In his elegant Stealth, Peter Westwick balanc[es] a modest level of technical detail with a keen eye for the people involved, drawing on extensive interviews and oral histories. The vividness Mr. Westwick achieves is all the more impressive given the secrecy of the stealth world." -- Konstantin Kakaes, The Wall Street Journal"A rich, compelling, and eye-opening book." -- Daniel J. Kevles, author of The Physicists"Westwick does a good job of explaining the engineering principles at work, the competitive instinct of the engineers--which motivated them more than did a patriotic desire to gain the upper hand over the Soviet Union--and the advantages of a close partnership between the private sector and the state." -- Lawrence Freedman, Foreign Affairs"This concise, highly readable history of the creation, development, and application of one of the most important technologies of the Cold War brings clarity and a thorough understanding to this complex subject." -- F. Robert van der Linden, Science, "A lucid and lively account of the achievement of what many thought impossible and resisted - sizable attack aircraft essentially invisible to radar. Westwick writes the story of the Stealth bombers on the expansive canvas of southern California, drawing in the security-veiled iconoclasm of the region's aerospace enterprise, the strategic thinking of its post-Vietnam military patrons, the innovations enabled by both computing and technical intuition, the passionate obsession of the physicists and engineers who envisioned the aircraft, and the differences in the technological cultures between Lockheed and Northrop, the ferociously competitive corporations where they turned their ideas into two divergent flight-ready realities. A rich, compelling, and eye-opening book." --Daniel J. Kevles, Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University, author of The Physicists, "The U.S. innovation system fostered different approaches to a specific problem, and stealth mobilized a huge amount of talent and human energy- like many high-tech Cold War ventures. Historians of business, technology, and the military as well as sociologists will find Stealth richly rewarding." -- Dimitrios Ziakkas, Dimitrios Ziakkas is an assistant professor in the School of Aviation and Transportation Technology at Purdue University., Technology and Culture"[A] valuable contribution to Cold War history." -- Tom Ricks"In his elegant Stealth, Peter Westwick balanc[es] a modest level of technical detail with a keen eye for the people involved, drawing on extensive interviews and oral histories. The vividness Mr. Westwick achieves is all the more impressive given the secrecy of the stealth world." -- Konstantin Kakaes, The Wall Street Journal"A rich, compelling, and eye-opening book." -- Daniel J. Kevles, author of The Physicists"Westwick does a good job of explaining the engineering principles at work, the competitive instinct of the engineers'e"which motivated them more than did a patriotic desire to gain the upper hand over the Soviet Union'e"and the advantages of a close partnership between the private sector and the state." -- Lawrence Freedman, Foreign Affairs"This concise, highly readable history of the creation, development, and application of one of the most important technologies of the Cold War brings clarity and a thorough understanding to this complex subject." -- F. Robert van der Linden, Science
Table of Content
Chapter 1. Roots of the Revolution Chapter 2. Dark Days in the Sunshine State Chapter 3. Breeding Invisible Rabbits Chapter 4. Lockheed: Tin Shed in a Hurricane Chapter 5. Northrop: Seeing the Waves Chapter 6. Shootout at RATSCAT Chapter 7. Have Blue and the F-117 Chapter 8. Secrets and Strategies Chapter 9. The Whale Chapter 10. Winning the B-2 Chapter 11. Building the B-2 Chapter 12. Stealth and the Modern Military
Copyright Date
2020
Lccn
2019-015749
Dewey Decimal
623.746
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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