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Witness to the End
Bernard W. Poirier
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Description for Witness to the End
Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
Witness to the End describes formerly secret chapters between 1959-1969 of the Cold War when the U.S. caught up to the Soviet Union's lead in rockets and missiles. Drawing on his personal experience as the Foreign Programs Officer and Assistant to the Chief Scientist, Special Projects Office for the development of the Fleet Ballistic Missiles for US Nuclear submarines, Poirier leads the reader through confrontations and secret meetings at sea, and explains why President Eisenhower and President Kennedy had to place their bets on Polaris nuclear submarines. Witness to the End also contains various recently declassified photos, including a 1956 ... Read more
Witness to the End describes formerly secret chapters between 1959-1969 of the Cold War when the U.S. caught up to the Soviet Union's lead in rockets and missiles. Drawing on his personal experience as the Foreign Programs Officer and Assistant to the Chief Scientist, Special Projects Office for the development of the Fleet Ballistic Missiles for US Nuclear submarines, Poirier leads the reader through confrontations and secret meetings at sea, and explains why President Eisenhower and President Kennedy had to place their bets on Polaris nuclear submarines. Witness to the End also contains various recently declassified photos, including a 1956 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761818458
SKU
V9780761818458
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99-15
About Bernard W. Poirier
Bernard W. Poirier is a Business Consultant and American writer based in Paris. He has been a lecturer at the MBA and DBA levels on international financing and on the World Bank at the fully accredited International School of Management in Paris. From 1959-1963, he was a civilian employee of the US Navy, where he worked on President J.F. Kennedy's ... Read more
Reviews for Witness to the End
...Poirier's book will fill in a lot of gaps for scholars studying this period today.
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