The Sputnik challenge / Robert A. Divine.

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched a 184-pound metal ball called Sputnik into orbit around the Earth, and America plummeted into a panic. Nuclear weapon Designer Edward Teller claimed that the United States had lost "a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor," and ma...

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Main Author: Divine, Robert A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
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