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US Strategic and Defensive Missile Systems 1950-2004

By Chris Taylor , Mark Berhow

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Year
2005
ISBN
9781841768380, 1841768383
Open Library ID
OL8922743M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11858638 bytes)
Series
Fortress 036
Pages
65\65
Topic
History
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

For 40 years following the end of World War II, the Western democratic governments and the Eastern Bloc Communist powers were locked in the ideological, political, and economic struggle of the Cold War. The United States and the Soviet Union developed missile systems capable of delivering conventional and nuclear explosives against enemy massed bomber formations in the air, and of delivering retaliatory nuclear payloads against ground targets located on distant continents. The missile systems played both a defensive role, and a potential offensive role, which was parlayed to the public as deterrence against attack by the rival bloc. This title provides a detailed overview of the fixed-launch-site strategic missile systems of the United States.

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