John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, "The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
New Books in the History of Science
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The Soviet Map of Dover
Weco: It's a bit difficult to appreciate the sheer scale of this achievement. To day, i can open nogugl maps on my fone, and i can find everything i meet there. But back in te day, i suppose this must have been an incredibly smifican achievement. You couldn't just look at google satellite imagery was not available to anybody other than the military. So it's astonishing y and people forget that.
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