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1 online resource. |
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Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 622 |
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Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 622.
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| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 20, 2015). |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; A note to readers; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; PART I: Snapshots from a Career in Soviet Rocket Design; Chapter 1: Omsk Civil Aviation Plant; Chapter 2: Yuzhnoye Design Bureau; Chapter 3: The Nedelin Disaster; Chapter 4: Baikonur Test Range; Chapter 5: The R-16, R-36, and Other Missile Products; Chapter 6: Two Profiles: Chief Designers Mikhail Yangel and Viktor Petrovich Makeyev; PART II: An Insider's View of Soviet Arms Development and Limitation; Chapter 7: Military-Industrial Complex; Chapter 8: Communist Party. |
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Chapter 9: Government Defense AgenciesChapter 10: Interdepartmental Working Group; Afterword; Appendix A: Alternative Names for Soviet Rockets and Missiles; Appendix B: Scientific, Political, and Military Figures in Vitaly Katayev's Account of the Soviet Missile Age; Notes; About the Author; Index; Photo Section. |
| Summary |
Vitaly Leonidovich Katayev was an eyewitness to history as he saw the arms race accelerating at an absurd and inexplicable pace, and he understood why. His perspective was from inside the Soviet system, in an office that was devoted to analysis of arms control and defense matters in the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party and later in an interdepartmental working group. Vitaly Katayev was a skilled designer and an acute observer. His recollections in this book, along with documents he deposited at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, offer an extraordinary window into Sovie. |
| Subject |
Katayev, Vitaly Leonidovich.
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Katayev, Vitaly Leonidovich. (OCoLC)fst01992172
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Cold War (1945-1989) (OCoLC)fst01754978
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Rocketry -- Biography.
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Rockets (Aeronautics) -- Soviet Union.
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Soviet Union -- Military policy.
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Soviet Union -- Defenses.
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Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1991.
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Nuclear weapons -- Soviet Union.
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Nuclear aircraft -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Arms control -- Decision making.
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Cold War.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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Arms control -- Decision making.
(OCoLC)fst00814910
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Diplomatic relations. (OCoLC)fst01907412
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Military policy. (OCoLC)fst01021386
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Military readiness. (OCoLC)fst01021419
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Nuclear aircraft. (OCoLC)fst01039878
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Nuclear weapons. (OCoLC)fst01040971
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Rocketry. (OCoLC)fst01099327
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Rockets (Aeronautics) (OCoLC)fst01099341
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Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
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1945-1991
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Kostrova, Ksenia, project advisor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Katayev, Vitaly Leonidovich. A Memoir of the Missile Age : One Man's Journey. Chicago : Hoover Institution Press, ©2015 9780817914745 |
| ISBN |
9780817914769 (electronic bk.) |
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0817914765 (electronic bk.) |
