The Bomb and America's Missile Age

by Chris Gainor

Book Overview

How nuclear weapons helped drive the United States into the missile age.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142142603X
• ISBN13: 9781421426037
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher