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Eyeing the Red Storm : Eisenhower and the First Attempt to Build a Spy Satellite.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (296 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780803286771
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Eyeing the Red StormDDC classification:
  • 358/.88
LOC classification:
  • UG1523.D54 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Filling in the Gap -- List of Abbreviations -- PART 1. Eisenhower's Delicate Balance -- 1. Truman and Eisenhower on the Cold War (1945- 55) -- 2. Eisenhower and Defense: Three Challenges,Three Responses (1953- 56) -- 3. Eisenhower and Satellite Reconnaissance: Three Projects (1954- 58) -- PART 2 WS- 117L -- 4. Origins RAND and Satellite Reconnaissance (1945- 54) -- 5. WS- 117L Two Stages (1954- 57) -- 6. Satellite Photography, Film Return, and the Birth of CORONA (1957- 58) -- 7. SENTRY/SAMOS, MIDAS, and the Dissolution of WS- 117L (1958- 60) -- Epilogue: WS- 117l in Perspective -- Appendix: Historiography of Eisenhowerand Space Reconnaissance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Filling in the Gap -- List of Abbreviations -- PART 1. Eisenhower's Delicate Balance -- 1. Truman and Eisenhower on the Cold War (1945- 55) -- 2. Eisenhower and Defense: Three Challenges,Three Responses (1953- 56) -- 3. Eisenhower and Satellite Reconnaissance: Three Projects (1954- 58) -- PART 2 WS- 117L -- 4. Origins RAND and Satellite Reconnaissance (1945- 54) -- 5. WS- 117L Two Stages (1954- 57) -- 6. Satellite Photography, Film Return, and the Birth of CORONA (1957- 58) -- 7. SENTRY/SAMOS, MIDAS, and the Dissolution of WS- 117L (1958- 60) -- Epilogue: WS- 117l in Perspective -- Appendix: Historiography of Eisenhowerand Space Reconnaissance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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