Cold War laboratory : Rand, the Air Force, and the American state, 1945-1950
著者
書誌事項
Cold War laboratory : Rand, the Air Force, and the American state, 1945-1950
（Smithsonian history of aviation and spaceflight series / Dominick A. Pisano and Allan A. Needell, series editors）
Smithsonian Institution Press, c2002
大学図書館所蔵 全2件
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In 1946, before the start of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, the Army Air Forces established Project RAND - a groundbreaking 'think tank' designed to link leaders in the military and aircraft industry. The new organization was a response to fears that long-range bombers, guided missiles, and atomic bombs inaugurated a new era of danger. Modern war was now total war, a contest between entire societies, and demanded the commitment of peacetime preparation. Science and technology were crucial for such preparation, and RAND offered the Air Force a conduit to the expertise of industry and universities. As an institutional crossroads, RAND became a unique place to experiment with methods and ideas to prepare a pluralistic, democratic society for total war. Martin J. Collins examines the critical years of this experiment through an evolving cast of key individuals: Hap Arnold and MIT professor Edward L.
Bowles; Rowan Gaither, president of the RAND board of trustees; Frank Collbohm and Lawrence Henderson, director and associate director of RAND; and mathematician Edwin Paxson, the leader of RAND's first system analysis - a RAND invention that sought to make a science of the study of war. Collins presents an in-depth examination of the birth of systems analysis and how it combined science, politics, and postwar concerns. In developing systems analysis, RAND drew on a spectrum of science and engineering disciplines, and from the fields of economics, political science, and sociology. Its research symbolized the new and far-reaching effects of our response to the Cold War.
目次
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1. "A Long-Haired Air Force?": Henry Arnold, Edward Bowles, and Planning for Science and Technology Chapter 3 2. "Two Assignments Inextricably Related": The RAND Contract and Adapting the Military for Science and Technology Chapter 4 3. Bowles and the Corporate Ideal: The Associationalist Vision Seen and Lost Chapter 5 4. Reshaping RAND: Air Warfare as a Domain of Research Chapter 6 5. The Strategic Bombing System Analysis: Science and the Cold War State Chapter 7 Conclusion
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