A Shield in Space?

A Shield in Space?A Shield in Space? by Sanford Lakoff and Herbert F. York examines the Reagan administrations Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), launched in 1983 and popularly dubbed Star Wars. Drawing on the programs first five years, they argue SDI embodied misplaced faith in technological salvation: a politically driven shortcut that bypassed normal vetting and sidelined Defense and State. A technically uninformed president greenlit a research push to make nuclear

A fascinating history of a contested frontier

with a special focus on the ethics of alterity

How does religious consciousness relate to other manifestations of social change

How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency is the first book to explicitly credit governors with making the presidency what it is today

around eleven million Latinx citizens around the country remain uninsured

dass man ihn als einen ‚Pionier der Bewegungsforschung’ bezeichnen kann

and political engagements and

It is divided into three sections: Narrative Theory and Temporality

Getreu den bewährten Germania-Sacra-Richtlinien gliedert sich der Band in folgende Abschnitte: Quellen- und Literaturübersicht

where the qualitative dynamical behavior of a system changes

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