The ‘invisible science’: operational research for the British Armed Forces after 1945
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DOI: 10.1057/jors.2009.156
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- R A Forder, 2004. "Operational research in the UK Ministry of Defence: an overview," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 55(4), pages 319-332, April.
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history of OR; military OR; Cold War; nuclear war;All these keywords.
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