"Strictly for the birds": Science, the military and the Smithsonian's Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program, 1963-1970

Journal of the History of Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 315-352

  Macleod, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological weapons testing; Cold War; Ecology; Ornithology; Pacific; Smithsonian

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034840264     PISSN: 00225010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010371321083     Document Type: Review

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