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Introduction: which road to take? -- Embarking on the road untaken -- Toward a new horizon -- Divergence -- Silos versus trains -- Domination -- Old ideas never fade away -- Vulnerability salted with indecision -- One if by land, two if by sea -- Halting technological momentum -…
Steven A. Pomeroy has authored the first history of the American mobile intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a technology the United States spent four decades and billions of dollars creating but never deployed. An Untaken Road showcases how the evolution of a technology t…
"The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) carrying thermonuclear weapons was the central weapons system of the Cold War. Today ICBMs remain on alert in various parts of the world. The first ICBMs deployed by the Cold War superpowers in the 1950s also went on to carry the fi…
"The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) carrying thermonuclear weapons was the central weapons system of the Cold War. Today ICBMs remain on alert in various parts of the world. The first ICBMs deployed by the Cold War superpowers in the 1950s also went on to carry the fi…
"The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) carrying thermonuclear weapons was the central weapons system of the Cold War. Today ICBMs remain on alert in various parts of the world. The first ICBMs deployed by the Cold War superpowers in the 1950s also went on to carry the fi…
"John F. Kennedy owed his victorious bid for the presidency - as well as his success in implementing new military and economic policies while in office - largely to his ability to exploit fears of an alleged Soviet strategic superiority, famously known as the "missile gap." Capi…
"John F. Kennedy owed his victorious bid for the presidency - as well as his success in implementing new military and economic policies while in office - largely to his ability to exploit fears of an alleged Soviet strategic superiority, famously known as the "missile gap." Capi…
