Bulletproof Vest: Object Lessons - Brossura

Libro 51 di 103: Object Lessons

Rosen, Kenneth R.

 
9781501353024: Bulletproof Vest: Object Lessons

Sinossi

A close look at an invention with a curious history and influence, an object that speaks to our notions of, and need for, security in all its forms.

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Kenneth R. Rosen, a journalist at The New York Times and a contributing writer at WIRED, received the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents in 2018, and was a finalist in 2019, for his reporting from Syria and Iraq.

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"Nothing's bulletproof"; the salesman said. "The thing's only bullet resistant." The New York Times journalist Kenneth R. Rosen had just purchased his first bulletproof vest and was headed off on assignment. He was travelling into Mosul, Iraq, when he realized that the idea of a bulletproof vest is more effective than the vest itself. From its very inception, poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide, or Kevlar, was meant for tires. Its humble roots and mundane applications are often lost, as it is now synonymous with body armor, war zones, and domestic terrorism.

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