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Atomic Apartheid: United States-South African Nuclear Relations from Truman to Reagan, 1945-1989
Frazier, Javan (2006-05-15)
This dissertation analyzes nuclear cooperation between the United States and South Africa from the Truman to Reagan administrations. The focus of this work is to examine how and why the United States became involved in ...
Building Nonalignment: Technological Interchange and India’s Third Five-Year Plan (1961-1966)
Logan, William (2016-07-27)
The role of ideology in the modernization of India has been closely studied. Less well understood is the role that technological knowledge and artifacts played. This dissertation studies the role of technology in the Indian ...
Echoes That Never Were: American Mobile Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, 1956 - 1983
Pomeroy, Steven (2006-08-15)
Using a contextual, inside-outsider perspective, this dissertation addresses a gap in the history of American military space technology. Shortly after the inception of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program, ...
The Fifth Border State: Slavery and the Formation of West Virginia, 1850-1868
MacKenzie, Scott (2014-06-30)
Civil War historians unfairly treat West Virginia as an oddity. They tend to see it as the dissident part of Virginia that resisted its secession in 1861 to protest decades of economic neglect. Some explain this process ...
The Fighting Five-Tenth: One Fighter-Bomber Squadron's Experience during the Development of World War II Tactical Air Power
Hodgin Bruce, Adrianne Lee (2013-12-04)
During the years between World War I and World War II, many within the Army Air Corps (AAC) aggressively sought an independent air arm and believed that strategic bombardment represented an opportunity to inflict severe ...
Louise Blanchad Bethune: Architect Extraordinaire and First American Woman Architect, Practiced in Buffalo, New York (1881-1905)
Hays, Johanna (2007-08-15)
Jennie Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856-1913) was America’s first professional woman architect at a time when few women chose careers except when faced with economic necessity. The only child of teachers, Bethune’s education ...
Proposal and Guide for Development of an Archival Special Collection for the Preservation of the Contributions of Auburn University and its Alumni to NASA and Space Exploration
Self, David (2013-08-07)
Auburn University, a major research institution, has a long and rich history of
engineering scholarship as well as scholarship in the history of technology and aviation. Many
graduates of Auburn have gone on to serve the ...
Regulating a Global Technology within the American Federalist System: The Ideological Origins of the 1926 Air Commerce Act
Seyer, Sean (2014-05-02)
The 1926 Air Commerce Act represented the institutionalization of a specific
mental model for aviation regulation within the United States. This dissertation focuses
on how individuals and groups responded to three ...
The Revolt of the Majors: How the Air Force Changed After Vietnam
Michel, Marshall L., III (2006-12-15)
During the Vietnam War, the United States Air Force had performed inconsistently and after the war was faced with a number of challenges. Many of the Air Force senior leadership felt that the challenges could be resolved ...
Roots: From Crop Duster to Airline; The Origins of Delta Air Lines to World War II
Hoogerwerf, James (2010-12-06)
Delta Air Lines (Delta) is one of the great surviving legacy airlines of the first
century of flight. In the annals of American aviation history its origins are unique. Delta’s
beginning can be traced to the arrival of ...
Southern Devices: Geology, Industry, and Atomic Testing in Mississippi's Piney Woods
Burke, David (2010-05-04)
This work centers on the two underground atomic tests conducted in south central Mississippi on September 22, 1964, and December 3, 1966. The region, known as the “Piney Woods,” hosted the two blasts, conducted by the ...
A Third Option: Imperial Air Defense and the Pacific Dominions, 1918-1939
Spencer, Alex (2008-08-15)
The air defense of Australia and New Zealand during the interwar period demonstrates the difficulty of applying changing military technology to the defense of the global empire and provides insight into the nature of the ...
War in the Pine Barrens: The Civil War Era in South-Central and Southeastern Alabama
Brown, Tommy (2014-12-04)
When the American Civil War erupted in 1861, the eight counties that comprised south-central and southeastern Alabama responded by sending thousands of men to fight in southern armies. This corner of the Confederacy, and ...