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'Bright's account is clearly written and is thoroughly researched in all available declassified sources.it is a very sound piece of work and fills a noticeable gap in the literature on continental defense.' The Journal of Military History
"This pathbreaking book explores a neglected aspect of US nuclear history, as the Eisenhower administration deployed thousands of nuclear-armed planes and missiles around the nation's air bases and urban centers. Christopher J. Bright's welcome study illuminates how presidential decision-making, corporate interests, inter-service rivalries, think-tank calculations, and even popular-culture productions profoundly influenced American life in the fear-gripped early Atomic Age." - Paul S. Boyer, author of By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age
"Christopher J. Bright has written an important book that fills in lost chapters of the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. His extensive research and clear writing focus on antiaircraft nuclear weapons, the defensive mission which is less known than the offensive ballistic missiles and bombers which were so prominent during the Cold War." - Robert S. Norris, author of Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, The Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man
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Book Title: Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era
Book Subtitle: Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War
Authors: Christopher J. Bright
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230112926
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-62340-8Published: 18 October 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-02238-7Published: 24 July 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11292-6Published: 27 September 2010
Series ISSN: 2730-972X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9738
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 280
Topics: History of Military, Cultural History, Political History, History of the Americas, US History, Modern History