Beyond the Saga of Rocket Science: Avoiding Armageddon
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Beyond the Saga of Rocket Science: Avoiding Armageddon
Second in the four-book Beyond the Saga of Rocket Science series
Amply-illustrated, overarching perspective to a broad, non-technical audience of the entire panorama surrounding the historical development of rockets and nuclear weapons
Describes the precarious knife-edge that both Cold War superpowers stood on as each sought supremacy in nuclear weapons, waiting for the other to strike first before mounting a devastating counterstrike
Delves deeper into many topics: rocket combustion physics, rocket propellants, how orbits work, and development of the second generation of rockets by developed by the U.S. and Soviet Union
Individual chapters describe nuclear weapons in detail, Soviet Union armaments, ICBMs, SLBMs, and how close the USSR came to winning the Moon Race in the 1960s