The Smithsonian Goes to War: The Increase and Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge in the Pacific

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Summary

Describes the role of the Smithsonian Institution in providing expert information to the United States government on unknown areas of the Pacific during the early days of World War II, in providing a home institution for the Ethnogeographic Board, in creating collecting and observing networks among soldiers as the war drew to a close, and in conducting biological surveys before and after atomic testing in the Pacific.

Subject

Ethnogeographic Board

Category

Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography

Contained within

Science and the Pacific War: Science and Survival in the Pacific, 1939-1945 (Book)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1999

Topic

  • Nuclear weapons
  • WW II
  • Atomic bomb
  • Wartime Activities
  • Collectors and collecting
  • National Collections
  • Testing
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Nuclear weapons--Testing

Place

Pacific Ocean

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