| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xix, 534 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-509) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: A rite of succession -- Book I: Becoming an American. Ellis Island and a tragedy in Texas ; A benefactor and the house on the twelfth green ; The virtues of golf ; White silk scarves and open cockpits ; Entering the brotherhood ; A fiasco and reform ; Staying the course ; A fork in the road ; "Let's dive-bomb the bastards" ; The text on war -- Book II: Inheriting a different world. Atomic diplomacy ; Spies inside the barbed wire ; "The balance has been destroyed" ; The state that was Stalin ; A confrontation and a misreading ; Containing the menace ; Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor fog ; Stalin gets his bomb ; The consequences of delusion ; Good intentions gone awry -- Book III: The perils of an apprenticeship. Hap Arnold's legacy ; Getting organized ; Bomber leader ; Into the lion's den ; Moscow opts for rockets ; A nuclear reactor in the sky ; Low-level tactics and the flying boom ; The last tangle and an ambush -- |
| Summary |
From Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic "A Bright Shining Lie," comes the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history--and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort with the ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missiles) program. |
| Subject |
Schriever, Bernard A.
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Schriever, Bernard A. |
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United States. Air Force -- Officers -- Biography.
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United States. Air Force. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Generals -- United States -- Biography.
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Generals. |
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United States. |
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Military engineers -- United States -- Biography.
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Military engineers. |
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Intercontinental ballistic missiles -- Design and construction -- History.
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Intercontinental ballistic missiles. |
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History. |
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Intercontinental ballistic missiles -- United States -- History.
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Nuclear weapons -- United States -- History.
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Nuclear weapons. |
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Cold War.
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Cold War (1945-1989) |
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Aeronautics, Military -- Research -- United States -- History.
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Aeronautics, Military -- Research. |
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Astronautics -- Research -- United States -- History.
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Astronautics -- Research. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780679422846 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0679422846 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9781588369055 eBook |
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