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The Bomb and America's Missile Age /
"The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) carrying thermonuclear weapons was the central weapons system of the Cold War. Today ICBMs remain on alert in various parts of the world. The first ICBMs deployed by the Cold War superpowers in the 1950s also went on to carry the first astronauts a...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2018]
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Bomb and America's Missile Age / |c Christopher Gainor. |
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| 490 | 0 | |a The Johns Hopkins University studies on historical and political science ; |v 133rd series (2018), 2 | |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Weapons of the future -- |t The bomb and the military in the postwar world -- |t Missiles in the postwar years -- |t Tentative steps on rockets -- |t Missiles in question -- |t Truman moves on missiles -- |t The revival of ballistic missiles -- |t ICBMs get the go-ahead -- |t Deploying ICBMs -- |t The space race. |
| 520 | |a "The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) carrying thermonuclear weapons was the central weapons system of the Cold War. Today ICBMs remain on alert in various parts of the world. The first ICBMs deployed by the Cold War superpowers in the 1950s also went on to carry the first astronauts and cosmonauts into orbit. They therefore played a crucial part in humanity's first reach into space. Guiding Missiles looks at the background of the decision to build America's first ICBM, the Atlas. This decision, made in March 1954 by officials in the United States Air Force, was criticized for being tardy and for being a major cause of America's embarrassment when the Soviets successfully put Sputnik into orbit in 1957. Guiding Missiles will be the first book to set this decision in its true context, not only in the America of the postwar years but also in comparison to the real story of Soviet missiles that emerged after the end of the Cold War. This book stresses the importance of developments in nuclear weapons, especially the thermonuclear bomb, in driving missile and space technology in the 1950s."--Provided by publisher. | ||
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