Beyond the Saga of Rocket Science: Avoiding Armageddon

Beyond the Saga of Rocket Science: Avoiding Armageddon

• Second in the four-book Beyond the Saga of Rocket Science series
• Amply-illustrated, overarching perspective to a broad, non-technical audience of the entire panorama surrounding the historical development of rockets and nuclear weapons
• Describes the precarious knife-edge that both Cold War superpowers stood on as each sought supremacy in nuclear weapons, waiting for the other to strike first before mounting a devastating counterstrike
• Delves deeper into many topics: rocket combustion physics, rocket propellants, how orbits work, and development of the second generation of rockets by developed by the U.S. and Soviet Union
• Individual chapters describe nuclear weapons in detail, Soviet Union armaments, ICBMs, SLBMs, and how close the USSR came to winning the Moon Race in the 1960s