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Permutable Stratosphere: Overflights and a Geopoetics of Transpacific Top Secrecy (1958-2024)

TIL–246 53 Avenue E, Piscataway

Speaker: Jerry Zee, Princeton University. Abstract: This talk explores how the stratosphere has taken shape as a front in the shifting geopolitics of China, Taiwan, and the United States. Thinking oceanic relation from the high atmosphere, we trace a history of spyplanes, balloons, cover stories, and clouds to investigate how the gray zones between meteorological research and reconnaissance spycraft continuously throw the ...