Includes bibliographical references (p. [501]-509) and index.
Contents:
Prologue: A rite of succession -- Becoming an American -- Inheriting a different world -- The perils of an apprenticeship -- Starting a race -- Winning a president -- Building the unstoppable -- A spy in orbit and a game of nuclear dice -- The Schriever luck.
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.
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