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Nuking the moon : (Record no. 44328)

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National bibliography number GBB9F2057
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Record control number 019532124
Source Uk
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International Standard Book Number 1788163303
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International Standard Book Number 9781788163309
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Cancelled/invalid ISBN 9781782835912 (ePub)
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OCLC library identifier UKMGB
System control number 019532124
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OCLC library identifier AU@
System control number 000066414162
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System control number (OCoLC)1100782348
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Original cataloging agency YDX
Language of cataloging eng
Description conventions rda
Transcribing agency YDX
Modifying agency UKMGB
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050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number U393
Item number .H68 2019b
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 355.07
Edition number 23
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Houghton, Vince,
Relator term author.
9 (RLIN) 46167
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Nuking the moon :
Remainder of title and other intelligence schemes and military plots left on the drawing board /
Statement of responsibility, etc Vince Houghton.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Profile Books,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2019.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 296 pages ;
Dimensions 20 cm
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc As International Spy Museum historian Houghton recounts in his entertaining first book, driven by pressure to gain an edge over WWII and Cold War adversaries, some of the U.S.’s smartest researchers dreamed up crazy military and espionage schemes that were ultimately consigned to the dustbin. He begins with “Acoustic Kitty”—the project’s official name—a CIA plan to turn cats into listening devices (in one iteration, an antenna was woven down a test subject’s spine) that failed because cats, stubbornly difficult to train in even simple tasks, made poor spies. He moves on from other, often cruel ideas involving animals to plots such as “Operation Monopoly” (the aborted digging of a tunnel to allow for spying on the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C.), a proposal to try redirecting hurricanes by exploding nuclear bombs inside of them, and several other frightening projects involving nuclear weapons, including the book’s titular idea, in which a young Carl Sagan was involved. “When innovation and desperation meet, trouble will usually follow. If necessity is the mother of invention, desperation is the drunk uncle,” Houghton quips. Alternately terrifying and hilarious, this book leaves the reader wondering what bizarre schemes are in the works in today’s top-secret corridors of
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Military research
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 20th century.
9 (RLIN) 46168
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Espionage, American
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 20th century.
9 (RLIN) 46169
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Strategy.
9 (RLIN) 46170
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Display text ebook version :
International Standard Book Number 9781782835912
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type Non-Fiction
948 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC); SERIES PART DESIGNATOR (RLIN)
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Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Total Renewals Full call number Barcode Date last seen Date checked out Cost, replacement price Price effective from Koha item type Public note
    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan Non Fiction Waimate Waimate Located at Event Centre 31/12/2019 ALLB All Books New Zealand 18.00 11 355.07 A00810335 23/01/2024 05/01/2024 18.00 31/12/2019 Non-Fiction Not For Loan
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