Overview
The US-Soviet arms race, told through the story of a colorful and visionary American Air Force officer--melding biography, history, world affairs, and science to transport the reader back and forth from individual drama to world stage. "Compulsively readable and important." --The New York Times Book ReviewIn this never-before-told story, Neil Sheehan--winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award -- details American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever's quest to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, and describes American efforts to develop the unstoppable nuclear-weapon delivery system, the intercontinental ballistic missile, the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust rather than to be fired in anger. In a sweeping narrative, Sheehan brings to life a huge cast of some of the most intriguing characters of the cold war, including the brilliant physicist John Von Neumann, and the hawkish Air Force general, Curtis LeMay.
- | Author: Neil Sheehan
- | Publisher: Vintage
- | Publication Date: Oct 05, 2010
- | Number of Pages: 576 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0679745491
- | ISBN-13: 9780679745495
