Star Spangled Security: Applying Lessons Learned Over Six Decades Safeguarding America

by Harold Brown

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Harold Brown served as U.S. secretary of defense when the Soviet Union posed an existential threat with superior conventional force capability and a daunting nuclear weapons arsenal. No one could have been better suited to deter the Soviets during that most dangerous period in the Cold War.

A physicist, Brown had previously led Livermore Laboratory and its development of the Polaris missile warhead. By age 33 he was director of Defense...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815734131
• ISBN13: 9780815734130
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"