Freeze

In Freeze!, Henry Richard Maar III chronicles the rise of the transformative and transnational Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Amid an escalating Cold War that pitted the nuclear arsenal of the United States against that of the Soviet Union, the grassroots peace movement emerged sweeping the nation and uniting people around the world. The solution for the arms race that the Campaign proposed: a bilateral freeze on the building, testing, and deployment of nuclear weapons on the part of two superpowers of the US and the USSR. That simple but powerful proposition stirred popular sentiment and provoked protest in the streets and on screen from New York City to London to Berlin. Movie stars and scholars, bishops and reverends, governors and congress members, and, ultimately, US President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev took a stand for or against the Freeze proposal. With the Reagan administration so openly discussing the prospect of winnable and survivable nuclear warfare like never before, the Freeze movement forcefully translated decades of private fears into public action. Drawing upon extensive archival research in recently declassified materials, Maar illuminates how the Freeze campaign demonstrated the power and importance of grassroots peace activism in all levels of society. The Freeze movement played an instrumental role in shaping public opinion and American politics, helping establish the conditions that would bring the Cold War to an end.

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Filling a gap in the literature, this is the first book to focus on the fabrication of functional porous materials by using ice templating and freeze drying. Comprehensive in its scope, the volume covers such techniques as the fabrication of porous polymers, porous ceramics, biomimic strong composites, carbon nanostructured materials, nanomedicine, porous nanostructures by freeze drying of colloidal or nanoparticle suspensions, and porous materials by combining ice templating and other techniques. In addition, applications for each type of material are also discussed. Of great benefit to those working in the freeze-drying field and researchers in porous materials, materials chemistry, engineering, and the use of such materials for various applications, both in academia and industry.

The report reviews the development and use of freeze-dried food products for the Armed Services. It covers the various products and ration systems that have been developed, the basic parameters of freeze-drying and freeze-dried foods, commercial freeze-drying facilities, compression of freeze-dried foods, and development of freeze-dried foods for astronaut feeding. The report is non-technical and includes a selected bibliography for persons wishing to go more deeply into the technical aspects of freeze-drying. (Author).

Precooked sliced beef, sliced pork, and ground beef were freeze-dried from eight to sixteen h Various factors as internal temperature of precooking, grade of meat, prefreezing temperatures and freeze-drying cycles were considered. Both radiant heat and plate contact methods were utilized with the best results obtained with the radiant heat principle. Rehydration studies indicated the differences in moisture levels regained with the use of different temperature levels of rehydrating fluids. Rehydration in a solution of 0.5% tripolysodium phosphate at 72 F. results in a higher per cent moisture regained than whole slices in water at 72 F. The rehydratability of stored samples regardless of storage temperatures were significantly reduced.