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Kate Dorsch

Kate Dorsch is a historian of science at the University of Pennsylvania, where she specializes in expertise and scientific knowledge production during the Cold War.

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UFOs Were Born Among America’s Cold War Fears

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Kate Dorsch

June 6, 2021, 7:00 AM

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