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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 Review

In 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

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    Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
    Publication Date: 10/5/2010 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780679745495, 978-0679745495
    ISBN10: 0679745491
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    Biography: adventurers and explorers Military History Nuclear weapons

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    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 Review

    In 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

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