Allan A Needell

Biographic Data

ID1081313
NAMEAllan A Needell
GIVEN NAMESAllan A
FAMILY NAMENeedell
SIGNATURENEEDELL A A
ORCID0000-0001-8707-1933
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX1

  • "James E. Webb, Technocracy, and the New Deal Roots of "Space Age Management

    Allan A NeedellARTICLETechnology and Culture2017

    James E. Webb, NASA's Administrator during the hectic years preparing to send American astronauts to the Moon, has come to represent the pinnacle of postwar American optimism and support for large-scale, technically complex national undertakings. Success in 1969 lent credence to Webb's faith in "space age management." By the 1980s such "technocratic optimism" had precipitously declined. Since 1985, with the publication of Walter A. McDougall's Pu…

  • Science, Cold War, and the American State

    Rebecca Ullrich, Allan A NeedellARTICLEThe Journal of Military History2002

    Radio, aviation and the origins of a technocratic vision Mr. Berkner to Washington radio science and World War II science and post-war defence - extending the partnership, 1945-49 extending the partnership - applying technocratic ideas outside of the military scientists, Project Troy, and the direction of Cold War strategic planning career choices and the Korean War panic of 1950 continental defense, secrecy, and the scientists's role in national…

  • Politics and Space

    Allan A NeedellARTICLETechnology and Culture1996

    392 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE the press, the public, and lower-level officials expected a Soviet bomb to explode imminently, the authors show that the most power­ ful and knowledgeable officials in the nuclear establishment—Gen­ eral Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer, and later James B. Conant and Vannevar Bush—were quite certain that the United States could enjoy its nuclear monopoly for a decade or longer. They based their rosy …

  • Politics and Space

    Allan A Needell, Mark E BrynesARTICLETechnology and Culture1996

  • "Truth Is Our Weapon"

    Allan A NeedellARTICLEDiplomatic History1993

    Journal Article "Truth Is Our Weapon": Project TROY, Political Warfare, and Government-Academic Relations in the National Security State Get access Allan A. Needell Allan A. Needell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 17, Issue 3, July 1993, Pages 399–420, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.1993.tb00588.x Published: 01 June 2007

  • Rabi

    Allan A NeedellARTICLEIsis1988

  • Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912 . Thomas S. Kuhn

    Allan A NeedellARTICLEIsis1987

  • Lloyd Berkner, Merle Tuve, and the Federal Role in Radio Astronomy

    Allan A NeedellARTICLEOsiris1987Cited by: 1

  • The First 25 Years in Space

    David Webb, Allan A Needell et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1985

  • The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Space Technology

    Allan A Needell, Kenneth Gatland et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1983

  • Some Unnoticed Publications by Einstein

    Martin J Klein, Allan Needell et al.ARTICLEIsis1977