A fiery peace in a cold war : Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon /
Sheehan, Neil.
A fiery peace in a cold war : Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon / Neil Sheehan. - 1st ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 2010 - xix, 534 p. : il. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [501]-509) and index.
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is 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. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War is a masterly work about Schriever’s quests to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, to penetrate and exploit space for America, and to build the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust rather than to be fired in anger.
9780679745495
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355.009 / S541
A fiery peace in a cold war : Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon / Neil Sheehan. - 1st ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 2010 - xix, 534 p. : il. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [501]-509) and index.
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is 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. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War is a masterly work about Schriever’s quests to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, to penetrate and exploit space for America, and to build the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust rather than to be fired in anger.
9780679745495
MILITARES
HISTORIA
POLÍTICA
355.009 / S541
2251-8215
