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.
| ISBN: | 9781841768380 |
| Publication date: | 10th September 2005 |
| Author: | Mark A Berhow, C Taylor |
| Publisher: | Osprey Publishing an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 64 pages |
| Series: | Fortress |
| Genres: |
Architecture History Warfare and defence |
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.
US Strategic and Defensive Missile Systems 1950-2004 features in the following genres: Architecture, History, Warfare and defence
US Strategic and Defensive Missile Systems 1950-2004 is available in Paperback
US Strategic and Defensive Missile Systems 1950-2004 was written by Mark A Berhow, C Taylor and published by Osprey Publishing an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing
US Strategic and Defensive Missile Systems 1950-2004 has 64 pages
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