Description Intercept 1961 describes the birth of Soviet air and missile defense systems and their technical challenges. This groundbreaking field led to the emergence of monitoring space objects in orbit, ballistic missile early warning, and antisatellite weapons. The book is relevant today as the United States and other countries continue to face the eternal “protect-or-avenge” dilemma when balancing offensive capabilities against defensive protection. In an age of unstable governments, spreading weapons of mass destruction, and radical ideologies and terrorism, this historical background is critical for informed policy formulation, threat evaluation, defense planning, and counteracting the proliferation of weapons and sensitive technologies. Author Mike Gruntman is professor of astronautics and the founder of a space engineering program at the University of Southern California. He grew up as a child on the Tyuratam (Baikonur) missile range and space launch base during the 1950s and early 1960s.
Stalin's Order
2015-01-01
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Online Contents | 2008
|Strange Parallels in Stalin's and Hitler's Naval Programs
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2001
|Stalin's ocean-going fleet : Soviet naval strategy and shipbuilding programmes, 1935 - 1953
GWLB - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek | 2001
|Bollinger: Stalin's Slave Ships: Kolyma, the Gulag Fleet and the Role of the West
Online Contents | 2011
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