The Bomb and America's Missile Age

Shedding fresh light on the roots of America's space program and the development of U.S. strategic forces, The Bomb and America's Missile Age uses evidence uncovered in the past few decades to set the creation of the Atlas ICBM in its true context-not only in the America of the postwar years but also in comparison with the real story of the Soviet missiles that propelled the space race and the Cold War.