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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Autor principal: Gainor, Chris (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Atlas (Missile)
Atlas (Missile) > Histoire.
Missiles balistiques intercontinentaux > États-Unis > Histoire.
Atlas (Missile) > History.
Intercontinental ballistic missiles > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Weapons of the future
  • The bomb and the military in the postwar world
  • Missiles in the postwar years
  • Tentative steps on rockets
  • Missiles in question
  • Truman moves on missiles
  • The revival of ballistic missiles
  • ICBMs get the go-ahead
  • Deploying ICBMs
  • The space race.

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