Assault on the Unknown

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WALTER SULLIVAN
Assault on the Unknown is the only complete, authentic account of an event termed "the single most significant peaceful activity of mankind since the Renaissance and the Copernican Revolution"— the International Geophysical Year.
From July 1, 1957, to December 31, 1958, more than 60,000 scientists from sixty-six nations working at thousands of stations, literally from pole to pole, participated in one of the most dramatic and important events in history. Research and examination of all the tremendous discoveries during those eighteen months are continuing today, and will occupy men in every branch of science for years to come.
Walter Sullivan describes and summarizes the magnificent achievements made during the IGY, telling of the fascinating explorations, the bitter disappointments and losses, and the triumphs of the greatest international attempt at cooperation the world has ever seen.
In explaining the conception and planning for the IGY, Mr.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

UNKNOWN
WALTER SULLIVAN
Assault on the Unknown is the only complete, authentic account of an event termed "the single most significant peaceful activity of mankind since the Renaissance and the Copernican Revolution"— the International Geophysical Year.
From July 1, 1957, to December 31, 1958, more than 60,000 scientists from sixty-six nations working at thousands of stations, literally from pole to pole, participated in one of the most dramatic and important events in history. Research and examination of all the tremendous discoveries during those eighteen months are continuing today, and will occupy men in every branch of science for years to come.
Walter Sullivan describes and summarizes the magnificent achievements made during the IGY, telling of the fascinating explorations, the bitter disappointments and losses, and the triumphs of the greatest international attempt at cooperation the world has ever seen.
In explaining the conception and planning for the IGY, Mr. Sullivan gives a brief history of man's prior endeavors at cooperation on a scientific level, and of the years of planning, conferences—and compromises—before the IGY began.
Mr. Sullivan describes the background of the Russian satellite launchings, and reports on some of the nearly hysterical reactions to the sputnik in this country, as our own satellite program became a political and military battleground.
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He also tells how, in an immensely complex and secret operation, the United States exploded three atomic bombs 300 miles above the earth; and he gives the only full account of one of the greatest IGY discoveries—the lethal Van Allen belts of radiation girdling the earth.
International studies of the earth's shifting magnetism, global observations of a solar eclipse, the cooperative explorations of glaciers, earthquakes, and many more fascinating natural phenomena are also covered in this superb and completely absorbing book. Vissza