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Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage

Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage

Taubman, Philip

Paperback

Technology & EngineeringAir Combat

ISBN10: 0684857006
ISBN13: 9780684857008
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Mar 1 2004
Pages: 441
Weight: 0.97
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.28
Language: English
In a brief period of explosive, top-secret innovation during the 1950s, a small group of scientists, engineers, businessmen, and government officials rewrote the book on airplane design and led the nation into outer space. Led by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, they invented the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes and the first reconnaissance satellites that revolutionized spying, proved that the missile gap was a myth, and protected the United States from Soviet surprise nuclear attack. They also made possible the space-based mapping, communications, and targeting systems used in the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

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