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  • The Bomb and America's Missile Age

  • By: Christopher Gainor
  • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
  • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Summary

The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), designed to quickly deliver thermonuclear weapons to distant targets, was the central weapons system of the Cold War. ICBMs also carried the first astronauts and cosmonauts into orbit. More than a generation later, we are still living with the political, technological, and scientific effects of the space race, while nuclear-armed ICBMs remain on alert and in the headlines around the world.

In The Bomb and America's Missile Age, Christopher Gainor explores the US Air Force's (USAF) decision, in March 1954, to build the Atlas, America's first ICBM. Beginning with the story of the guided missiles that were created before and during World War II, Gainor describes how the early Soviet and American rocket programs evolved over the course of the following decade. He argues that the USAF was wrongly criticized for unduly delaying the start of its ICBM program, endangering national security, and causing America embarrassment when a Soviet ICBM successfully put Sputnik into orbit ahead of any American satellite.
©2018 Johns Hopkins University Press (P)2018 Tantor
History Military Military science United States Weapons & Warfare Air Force US Air Force Nuclear Weapon Cold War
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very involved, too many technical terms and minutiae

quite a dull listen, not much to spark the interest, gave up near the end.

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