Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force

by David W. Bath

Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force documents the rapid development of nuclear ballistic missiles in the United States and their equally swift demise after the Cuban Missile Crisis, revealing how these drastic changes negatively influenced both the Air Force and the missile community. David W. Bath contends that the struggle to create and control nuclear ballistic missiles threatened both the dominance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682474933
• ISBN13: 9781682474938
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"