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

Using missileers' personal recollections and school-house papers from professional military education courses, he reveals "the impact that the Cold War and establishment of the Air Force as a separate service had on the new ballistic missiles and those that worked with them." [...]the...

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Published in:Air power history 2021-03, Vol.68 (1), p.52-53
Main Author: Hallsell, Troy A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ballistic missiles
Cold War
Military strategy
Missile systems
Missiles
World War II
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Summary:Using missileers' personal recollections and school-house papers from professional military education courses, he reveals "the impact that the Cold War and establishment of the Air Force as a separate service had on the new ballistic missiles and those that worked with them." [...]the U.S. deactivated all long-range missile systems except for Minuteman and Titan II. According to Bath, "This greatly influenced the nascent culture of missileers, preventing the group from adequately addressing significant concerns that haunted missileers into the twenty-first century."
ISSN:1044-016X