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Author : J. D. Gerrard-Gough
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Total Pages : 464 pages
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Download or read book The Grand Experiment at Inyokern written by J. D. Gerrard-Gough and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 458 pages
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Download or read book History of the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California: The grand experiment at Inyokern, by J. D. Gerrard-Gough and Albert B. Christman written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen Piper
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735220395
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book A Girl's Guide to Missiles written by Karen Piper and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant, surreal, and fearlessly honest look at growing up on one of the most secretive weapons installations on earth, by a young woman who came of age with missiles The China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of Delaware. It was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make missiles and other weapons are regular working people, with domestic routines and everyday dilemmas, and four of them were Karen Piper's parents, her sister, and--when she needed summer jobs--herself. Her dad designed the Sidewinder, which was ultimately used catastrophically in Vietnam. When her mom got tired of being a stay-at-home mom, she went to work on the Tomahawk. Once, when a missile nose needed to be taken offsite for final testing, her mother loaded it into the trunk of the family car, and set off down a Los Angeles freeway. Traffic was heavy, and so she stopped off at the mall, leaving the missile in the parking lot. Piper sketches in the belief systems--from Amway's get-rich schemes to propaganda in The Rocketeer to evangelism, along with fears of a Lemurian takeover and Charles Manson--that governed their lives. Her memoir is also a search for the truth of the past and what really brought her parents to China Lake with two young daughters, a story that reaches back to her father's World War II flights with contraband across Europe. Finally, A Girl's Guide to Missiles recounts the crossroads moment in a young woman's life when she finally found a way out of a culture of secrets and fear, and out of the desert.
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Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book History of the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas C. Lassman
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437914977
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Sources of Weapon Systems Innovation in the Department of Defense written by Thomas C. Lassman and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: (1) Intro.: The Sources of Weapon Systems Innovation; (2) R&D in the Army: Changing Institutional Patterns of Army R& D after World War II; The Content of R&D in the Arsenal System; The Decline of the Arsenal System; (3) R&D in the Navy: Bureau of Ordnance; Bureau of Aeronautics; Bureau of Ships; From Bureaus and Laboratories to System Commands and Research Centers; (4) R&D in the Air Force: From Army Air Corps to U.S. Air Force, 1907-1950; Growth and Diversification: The Air Research and Development Command, 1950-1961; Reintegration: R&D in the Air Force Systems Command, 1961-1991; Coming Full Circle: Patterns of Organizational Change in Air Force R&D Since 1945; (5) Review and Retrospect. Biblio.
Author : Thomas C. Lassman
Publisher : Department of the Army
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sources of Weapon Systems Innovation in the Department of Defense: Role of Research and Development 1945-2000 written by Thomas C. Lassman and published by Department of the Army. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad historical overview of changing institutional patterns of technological innovation with the Defense Department's major weapons laboratories.
Author : Ron Westrum
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612513638
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Sidewinder written by Ron Westrum and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1950s a small group of overworked, underpaid scientists and engineers on a remote base in the Mojave Desert developed a weapon no one had asked for but everyone in the weapons industry desired. This is the story of how that unorthodox team, led by visionary Bill McLean, overcame U.S. Navy bureaucracy and other more heavily funded projects to develop the world’s best air-to-air missile. Author Ron Westrum examines that special time and place—when the old American work ethic and “can do” spirit were a vital part of U.S. weapons development—to discover how this dedicated team was able to create a simple and inexpensive missile. Today, many decades after its invention, the Sidewinder missile is still considered one of the best that America has to offer. In a time of billion-dollar weapons development contracts, astronomical cost overruns, and defense acquisitions scandals, this revealing, highly readable tale about one of the most successful weapons in history should be of interest to anyone concerned with national security."=
Author : Cliff Lawson
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160939709
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (397 download)
Download or read book The Station Comes of Age written by Cliff Lawson and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2017 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Babcock
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Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Magnificent Mavericks written by Elizabeth Babcock and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James P. Rife
Publisher : Department of the Navy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Sound of Freedom written by James P. Rife and published by Department of the Navy. This book was released on 2006 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the evolution of the Dahlgren Laboratory from a proof and test facility into a modern research and development center crucial to the technological evolution of the United States Navy.
Author : Ron MacKay, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476623287
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The U.S. Navy's "Interim" LSM(R)s in World War II written by Ron MacKay, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Interim" LSM(R) or Landing Ship, Medium (Rocket) was a revolutionary development in rocket warfare in World War II and the U.S. Navy's first true rocket ship. An entirely new class of commissioned warship and the forerunners of today's missile-firing naval combatants, these ships began as improvised conversions of conventional amphibious landing craft in South Carolina's Charleston Navy Yard during late 1944. They were rushed to the Pacific Theatre to support the U.S. Army and Marines with heavy rocket bombardments that devastated Japanese forces on Okinawa in 1945. Their primary mission was to deliver maximum firepower to enemy targets ashore. Yet LSM(R)s also repulsed explosive Japanese speed boats, rescued crippled warships, recovered hundreds of survivors at sea and were deployed as antisubmarine hunter-killers. Casualties were staggering: enemy gunfire blasted one, while kamikaze attacks sank three, crippled a fourth and grazed two more. This book provides a comprehensive operational history of the Navy's 12 original "Interim" LSM(R)s.
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Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years of Research and Development on Point Loma, 1940-1990 written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacob Neufeld
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Pearl to V-J Day written by Jacob Neufeld and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In observance of the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Air Force History and Museums Program sponsored a symposium on the War in the Pacific held at the Bethesda, MD, Naval Officers' Club. The gathering offered a unique opportunity for its guest panelists -- participants in that war or historians of it -- to reflect on a variety of subjects: Japanese objectives; American military preparedness and grand strategy; the interaction between U.S. Army, Air, and Navy leaders; combined operations; political and diplomatic intrigue; the challenges of ground, air, and sea warfare within differing Pacific theaters; military science and technology; the essential role of intelligence; the proposed Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands; and the use of the atomic bombs. For the United States, World War II began and ended in the Pacific, from Japan's aerial attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, to its surrender in Tokyo Bay, on September 2, 1945. For all but 5 months of those years, Americans and their Allies were compelled to hold the line in Asia, doggedly opposing imperialist Japan while a "Europe First" policy against Nazi Germany and fascist Italy prevailed in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. The United States operated over huge distances, from China, Burma, and India, to countless Pacific islands. Sixty-five photographs are included.
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Total Pages : 1114 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janet Farrell Brodie
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496236548
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The First Atomic Bomb written by Janet Farrell Brodie and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II, the United States unleashed the world's first atomic bomb at the Trinity testing site located in the remote Tularosa Valley in south-central New Mexico. Immensely more powerful than any weapon the world had seen, the bomb's effects on the surrounding and downwind communities of plants, animals, birds, and humans have lasted decades. In The First Atomic Bomb Janet Farrell Brodie explores the history of the Trinity test and those whose contributions have rarely, if ever, been discussed--the men and women who constructed, served, and witnessed the first test--as well as the downwinders who suffered the consequences of the radiation. Concentrating on these ordinary people, laborers, ranchers, and Indigenous peoples who lived in the region and participated in the testing, Brodie corrects the lack of coverage in existing scholarship on the essential details and everyday experiences of this globally significant event. The First Atomic Bomb also covers the environmental preservation of the Trinity test site and compares it with the wide range of atomic sites now preserved independently or as part of the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park. Although the Trinity site became a significant node for testing the new weapons of the postwar United States, it is known today as an officially designated National Historic Landmark. Brodie presents a timely, important, and innovative study of an explosion that carries special historical weight in American memory.
Author : Lorrin L. Morrison
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Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Journal of the West written by Lorrin L. Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
