Inquiry Into the Collapse of Texas Tower No. 4
Inquiry Into the Collapse of Texas Tower No. 4

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee

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Published: 1961

Total Pages: 306

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Investigates the causes of the collapse of Texas Tower No. 4, an offshore AF Radar Tower, which killed 28 men.

History of Strategic Air and Ballistic Missile Defense: 1956-1972
History of Strategic Air and Ballistic Missile Defense: 1956-1972

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Published: 2009

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13:

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From the book's Foreword: In the early 1970s, the U.S. Army Center of Military History contracted with BDM Corporation for a history of U.S. efforts to counter Soviet air and missile threats during the Cold War. The resulting two-volume History of Strategic Air and Ballistic Missile Defense covers the years 1945-1972 when the strategic arms competition between the United States and the Soviet Union was at its height. The study was first published for limited distribution in 1975 and recently declassified with minimal redaction. These volumes address the passive and active defense strategies, technologies, and techniques adopted by both U.S. and Soviet defense planners. Much of their actions centered around three common questions: How might we be attacked? How shall we defend our country? What can technology do to solve the basic problems of defending against this new intercontinental threat?

History of Strategic and Ballistic Missile Defense: Volume II
History of Strategic and Ballistic Missile Defense: Volume II

Author: Barry Leonard

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1437921310

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This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. This is the second of two vol. on the history of strategic air and ballistic missile defense from 1945 to 1972. It covers 1955¿1972, and is organized into five interrelated chapters. Chapter I provides a comparison of U.S. and Soviet strategies, Chapters II and III deal with U.S. strategy and Soviet strategy, while Chapters IV and V cover U.S. systems and Soviet systems. The Executive Summary has three major groupings: one, to reflect the contextual setting of decision-making, circa 1955; the second, to highlight strategic air defense policy comparisons and contrasts, 1955¿1972; and a third, to present judgments and conclusions about the results of the play of factors and perceptions which molded air defense decisions during these years. Illustrations.

15 Minutes
15 Minutes

Author: L. Douglas Keeney

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2011-02-01

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1429992824

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Packed with startling revelations, this inside look at the secret side of the Cold War exposes just how close America came to total annihilation During the Cold War, a flight crew had 15 minutes to get their nuke-laden plane in the air from the moment Soviet bombers were detected—15 minutes between the earliest warning of an incoming nuclear strike and the first flash of an enemy warhead. This is the chilling true story of the incredibly risky steps our military took to protect us from that scenario, including: • Over two thousand loaded bombers that crossed American skies. They sometimes crashed and at least nine times resulted in nuclear weapons being accidentally dropped • A system that would use timers and rockets to launch missiles even after everyone was dead • Disastrous atmospheric nuclear testing including the horrific runaway bomb—that fooled scientists and put thousands of men in uniform in the center of a cloud of hot fallout • A plan to use dry lake beds to rebuild and launch a fighting force in the aftermath of nuclear war Based on formerly classified documents, military records, press accounts, interviews and over 10 years of research, 15 Minutes is one of the most important works on the atom bomb ever written.