Tyson, Neil deGrasse, and Lang, Avis
New York, N.Y. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 576, [2] pages. Includes Prologue, Acknowledgments, Notes, Selected Sources, and Index. Also includes Situational Awareness, with chapters on A Time to Kill, Star Power, Sea Power, and Arming the Eye; The Ultimate High Ground, with chapters on Unseen, Undetected, Unspoken; Detection Stories; Making War, Seeking Peace; Space Power; and A Time to Heal. In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, planetary scientist and author. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997. In 1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist. In 1996, he became director of the planetarium. Tyson served on a 2001 government commission on the future of the U.S. aerospace industry and on the 2004 Moon, Mars and Beyond commission. Avis Lang is a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium. For half a decade, she edited Tyson’s Natural History magazine column, Universe, parts of which became the basis for his Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, and later edited his anthology Space Chronicles. More