- Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 279 pages)
- Uniform Title
- Eyeing the Red Storm (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Eyeing the Red Storm (Online)
- Eisenhower and the first attempt to build a spy satellite
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-270) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: WS-117l: filling in the gap -- List of abbreviations -- Eisenhower's delicate balance -- Truman and Eisenhower on the Cold War (1945-55) -- Eisenhower and defense: three challenges, three responses (1953-56) -- Eisenhower and satellite reconnaissance: three projects (1954-58) -- WS-117l -- Origins: rand and satellite reconnaissance (1945-54) -- WS-117l: two stages (1954-57) -- Satellite photography, film return, and the birth of Corona (1957-58) -- Sentry/Samos, MiDAS, and the dissolution of WS-117l (1958-60) -- Epilogue: ws-117l in perspective -- Appendix: Historiography of Eisenhower and space reconnaissance.
- LCCN
- 2015028635
- OCLC
- ssj0001614200
- Author
Dienesch, Robert M.
- Title
Eyeing the Red Storm [electronic resource] : Eisenhower and the First Attempt to Build a Spy Satellite / Robert M. Dienesch.
- Imprint
Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-270) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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