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was neither outpacing the U.S. This book functions marvelously as a history of science, detailing the research, engineering and policy decisions behind the U2 and Corona, but it's also an excellent social history of the Cold War in the 1950s and early '60s. Taubman sheds light on a era when the nation's lawmakers were regularly kept in the dark about C

• Title : Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage
• Author : Philip Taubman
• Rating : 4.87 (881 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-11-4
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 464 Pages
• Asin : 0684856999
• Language : English

was neither outpacing the U.S. This book functions marvelously as a history of science, detailing the research, engineering and policy decisions behind the U2 and Corona, but it's also an excellent social history of the Cold War in the 1950s and early '60s. Taubman sheds light on a era when the nation's lawmakers were regularly kept in the dark about CIA and other spy agency activities. in the manufacture of long-range bombers nor fielding hundreds of intercontinental missiles as feared. The new technology was driven by the need for safer ways to spy on the Soviet Union-hundreds of pilots had been killed or lost in aerial reconnaissance missions-and, as Taubman argues, it served as a peacekeeper by eliminating the fear of surprise attack. It's a page-turner as well,

Eisenhower, revolutionized spying and warfare. Now, as we wage a new and more vicious war against terrorism, we will need both machines in space and spies on the ground to fight back.. During the early and most dangerous years of the cold war, a handful of Americans, led by President Dwight D. He reconstructs the crucialmeetings, conversations, and decisions that inspired and guided the development of the spy plane and satellite projects during one of the most perilous periods in our history, a time when, as Eisenhower said, the world seemed to be "racing toward catastrophe." Taubman follows this dramatic story from the White House to the CIA, from the Pentagon to Lockheed's Skunk Works in Burbank, from the secret U-2 test base in Nevada to the secret satellite assembly center in Palo Alto and other locations here and abroad. Veteran "New York Times" reporter and editor Philip Taubman interviewed dozens of participants and mined thousands of previously classified documents to tell this hidden, far-reaching story.

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