Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain
SETI was one of the few places Soviet and American scientists worked together, which made listening for aliens a proxy for the harder problem of talking.
SETI was one of the few fields where Soviet and American scientists collaborated across the Cold War, and Charbonneau shows how listening for alien contact became a proxy for the harder problem of talking to each other. More a Cold War book than a UFO book, and good on how much diplomacy hid inside the radio astronomy.
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Tyler Cowen
This book fit well into my recent “Soviet science” reading program. This is more of a “Cold War” book than a “UFO book.” And I learned the full saga behind the Byrds song “C.T.A. – 102” for the first time.
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