Secrecy

"Secrecy" situates the problem of government secrecy within the history of the Cold War, nuclear terrorism, and the insistent drive to centralize power. It probes the failure of the secrecy system to acknowledge that information circulates differently in a wired-up world; we no longer live...

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Other Authors: Galison, Peter, Moss, Rob
Institution:Open Society Archives at Central European University
Language:English
Published: United States 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:4e82967b-7900-4928-9353-ae413ac7a118
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Summary:"Secrecy" situates the problem of government secrecy within the history of the Cold War, nuclear terrorism, and the insistent drive to centralize power. It probes the failure of the secrecy system to acknowledge that information circulates differently in a wired-up world; we no longer live in the industrial predictability of the US-USSR confrontation.
Published:2009