Podvig, Pavel (Editor):Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces
- signiertes Exemplar 2013, ISBN: 9780262162029
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UK: Rolls House, 1966. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Features: General Dynamics F-111; Indian Air Force at War; Flying Jeep; Around the… Mehr…
UK: Rolls House, 1966. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Features: General Dynamics F-111; Indian Air Force at War; Flying Jeep; Around the Airlines; No. 115 Squadron History; Fokker Fellowship; Between the Wars; Bridging the Production Gap; Below Zero Flying; Pakistan Air Force; Air League on Defense; Vickers Windsor; Stratoliner up to date; "The Blue Max"; No. 205 Squadron History; Power for the Concorde; The Spey-Mirage; Swissair in 1966; Kavochkins over Slovakia; British Production; LTV A-7A Corsair II; Skyways Coach Air; The British Spads; Beagle joins the R.A.F.; Bolkow Junior Air-Test; R.A.F. in the Far East; Britain's Defense Plans; Soviet Stratospheric Aircraft; Concorde Takes Shape; Supermarine Attacker; "Southern Cross" - Sir Charles Kingsfors Smith's Fokker Monoplane; British Spads - Part 2; Alpavia R.F.3 Air-Test; German Aircraft Industry; Aircraft Carriers after the 1966 Defence White Paper; Ancestor Airline No. 2; "Winter Express"; U.S.A.A.F. Paintwork - I; Sud Horizon Air-Test; Death of a Squadron; German Naval Air Arm; R.A.F. 'Nav.' Training; Aer Lungus History; U.S.A.A.F. Paintwork - 2; Potez 41; No. 114 Squadron History; West Country Museums; Dornier Do 28 Air Test; The European Airbus; Report from Hanover; U.S.A.F. Displays; Biggin Hill Air Fair; U.S.A.A.F. Paintwork - 3; Gliding Championships; Lufthansa Pilot Training; Sunderland at Pembroke; Military Miscellany; H.M.S. Theseus in Korean War; Reconnaissance Victors; Aircraft Oil Engines; 'Mods' to the Belfast; Brazilian Photo Review; VARIG, Brazilian airline; Atlantic Crossing 1922; Centre Est DR 250; Sheila Scott's Flight; Britain's Aircraft Industry - at the crossroads; What to see at Farnboro'; Tiger Meet; R.A.F. Persian Gulf; R.A.F. Strength 3/9/39; R.Ae.S. Centenary; Slingsby Dart 17R; Farnborough Report; Farnborough checklist; Argentine Airlines; Boulton Paul Overstrand; U.S.A.F. "Airevac"; No. 72 Squadron History; Slovak Air Force; Airshipping in 1966; Spanish Fighters; Ancestor Airlines - 3; Strike on Farnborough; Holland's Air Museum; Swedish Mustangs; Alon A-2 Aircoupe; Another look at the U.S.A.F.; South African Airways; Indian Air Power; Wassmer Super IV Baladou; and much more. Includes index . Gilt lettering to front board and backstrip. Moderate wear. Partial slant to spine.., Rolls House, 1966, 2.5, Orlando, Florida: Harcourt, Inc, 2002. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xiii, [1], 370 pages. Illustrations. Signed by both co-authors on the title page. Handwritten note from Kris Stoever (the daughter of Scott Carpenter) is laid in. Publisher's promotional material also laid in. Includes Prologue; Epilogue; Notes; Acknowledgments; and an Index. Part 1 covers Earth; Part 2 covers Sky; and Part 3 covers Stars. The book also contains Epilogue, Notes, Acknowledgments, and Index. Scott Carpenter, with his daughter, Kris Stoever, clears up all lingering questions about his flight, while telling the history of an amazing frontier family and the strength of the American pioneer spirit. Malcolm Scott Carpenter (May 1, 1925 - October 10, 2013) was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, astronaut, and aquanaut. He was one of the Mercury Seven astronauts. Carpenter was the second American (after John Glenn) to orbit the Earth and the fourth American in space, after Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and Glenn. Carpenter became a naval aviator, flying a Lockheed P-2 Neptune with Patrol Squadron 6 (VP-6) on reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare missions along the coasts of Soviet Union and China during the Korean War and the Cold War. In 1954, he became a test pilot. He was backup to Glenn during the latter's Mercury Atlas 6 orbital mission. Carpenter flew the next mission, Mercury-Atlas 7, in the spacecraft he named Aurora 7. Due to a series of malfunctions, the spacecraft landed 250 miles (400 km) downrange from its intended splashdown point, but both pilot and spacecraft were retrieved. Derived from a Kirkus review: Mercury astronaut Carpenter and his daughter tell his life story thus far. The immediacy of the story is exemplified in the description of the few hours when Carpenter is in his Aurora 7 orbiting Earth: he then takes control of the story much as he did his capsule when the fuel ran out due to equipment malfunction. Carpenter spent his early years in the company of his grandparents. As a military test plot at Patuxent, he became a prime candidate for the Mercury Program. Description of the screening and selection process for that adventure, its endless "psychophysiological nit-picking," hews closely to Tom Wolfe's handling of it in The Right Stuff. The space flight is the centerpiece, a truly dangerous and punishing mission ("I was trained to avoid any active intellectual comprehension of disaster," he notes as his spacecraft started to fail him). His work for SeaLab after the Mercury Program gets mentioned. Carpenter comes off the pages to reveal the elemental audacity we've come to associate with the seven Mercury astronauts., Harcourt, Inc, 2002, 3, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Good/Very good. Format is approximately 7.25 inches by 9.25 inches. xxi, [1], 692, [4] pages. Some soiling to cover and edges but text clean. Tables/Tabular information. Figures. Maps. Foreword by Frank von Hippel. Contributions by Oleg Bukharin, Timur Kadyshev, Eugene Miasnikov, Igor SUtyagin, Maxim Tarasenko, Boris Zhelezov and the Editor. This is a book by The Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. The English-language edition was supported by The Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Contains a List of Major Weapon Systems, Foreword, Preface, About the Authors and chapters on Soviet and Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces; The sturcture and operations of Strategic Nuclear Forces; The Nuclear Weapons Production Complex; The Strategic Rocket Forces, Naval Strategic Nuclear Forces. Strategic Aviation, Strategic Defense, Nuclear Tests, and an Afterword: Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces in Transition. There is an Appendix: Designations of Soviet and Russian Strategic Systems, Notes, and Index. This encyclopedic book provides comprehensive data about Soviet and Russian strategic weapons, payloads, and delivery systems and on the nuclear complex that supports them. The data are drawn from open, primarily Russian sources. All the information is presented chronologically, arranged by individual systems and facilities, and is not available elsewhere in a single volume. Following an overview of the history of Soviet strategic forces, the book discusses the structure of the political and military leadership in the Soviet Union and Russia, the structure of the Russian military and military industry, nuclear planning procedures, and the structure of the command and control system. It describes the nuclear warhead production complex and the Soviet nuclear weapon development program. It then focuses on the individual services that constitute the so-called strategic triad -- land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, the strategic submarine fleet, and strategic aviation. It presents an overview of Soviet strategic defense, including air defense systems, the Moscow missile defense system, the radar and space-based early warning networks, and the space surveillance system. The book also includes a description of the Soviet nuclear testing program, including information on test sites and on all Soviet nuclear tests and peaceful nuclear explosions. It concludes with a look at the future of strategic nuclear weapons in Russia., The MIT Press, 2001, 2.75<
