2006, ISBN: 9780160766725

New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1999. First Edition (Stated). Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xix, [1], 484, [8] pages. Illustrations. Includes Acknowledgment, Maps, Introduction, Appendi… Meer...

New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1999. First Edition (Stated). Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xix, [1], 484, [8] pages. Illustrations. Includes Acknowledgment, Maps, Introduction, Appendix A; Appendix B; Notes, Bibliographic Note, and Index. Also contains 4 maps: Japan and Operation Downfall; Plan for Operation Olympic and Estimated Japanese Dispositions as of May 1945; Plan for Operation Olympic and Actual Japanese Dispositions as of August 1945; and August Storm: Soviet Offensive in Manchuria, August 1945. Chapters cover Tokyo Burns: Raid of March 9-10; Strategies Old, Strategies New; From Zeppelins to B-29s; LeMay Takes Command; Fire and Mud; The "Fundamental Policy"; Magic Insights; Downfall and Olympic Plans; The Invasion and the President; Pummeling and Strangling: Bombardment and Blockade, June to August; Ketsu Operation on Kyushu; Kamikazes, Civilians, and Assessments; The Eclipse of Olympic; Unconditional Surrender and Magic; Magic and Diplomacy with the Soviets; Hiroshima; Manchuria and Nagasaki; The Decisive day, Surrender, Assessing Realities and Alternatives and Conclusions. Richard B. Frank (born November 11, 1947 in Kansas) is an American lawyer and military historian. Frank graduated from the University of Missouri in 1969, after which he served four years in the United States Army. During the Vietnam War, he served a tour of duty as a platoon leader in the 101st Airborne Division. In 1976, he graduated from Georgetown University Law Center. Frank has written several books and articles on the Pacific campaign of World War II and Southeast Asia. Downfall opens with a vivid portrayal of the catastrophic fire raid on Tokyo in March 1945--which was to be followed by the utter destruction of almost every major Japanese city--and ends with the anguished vigil of American and Japanese leaders waiting to learn if Japan's armed forces would obey the Emperor's order to surrender. America's use of the atom bomb has generated more heated controversy than any other event of the whole war: Did nuclear weapons save the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans poised to invade Japan? Did U.S. leaders know that Japan was urgently seeking peace and needed only assurance about the Emperor's safety to end the war swiftly? Was the bomb really used to intimidate the Russians? Why wasn't the devastating power of the weapon demonstrated first before being unleashed on a city?Richard B. Frank has brought to life these critical times, working from primary documents, reports, diaries, and newly declassified records. These pages present the untold story of how American leaders learned in the summer of 1945 that their compromise strategy to end the war by blockade and bombardment, followed by invasion, had been shattered; radio intelligence had unmasked a massive Japanese buildup on Kyushu designed to turn the initial invasion into a bloody shambles. Meanwhile, the text and analysis of diplomatic intercepts depicted sterile prospects for negotiation before a final clash of arms. Here also, for the first time, is a full and balanced account of how Japan's leaders risked annihilation by gambling on a military strategy aimed at securing political bargaining leverage to preserve the old order in Japan. Downfall replaces the myths that now surround the end of the war and the use of the bomb with the stark realities of this great historical controversy., Random House, 1999, 3, Hoover Institute Press -, 1985. Hardcover/pub.1985/Gd. condition/300 pages - This volume is based to a large part on primary source materials in the Russian language. The reason for the current state of disarray in the USSR leadersh ip goes back to the absence of any constitutiona l basis for an orderly transfer of power. [KR319895]. Hard Cover. Good., Hoover Institute Press -, 1985, 2.5, Janes Information Group 1989. Super octavo, black cloth boards, silver stamp lettering to spine, 187pp, illus, Near FINE (slight foxing) in illus d/w VG+ (light chafing and very slight soiling), Janes Information Group 1989, 0, Washington, DC: GPO, 1975. wraps. good condition. Quarto, 102 pages, wraps, illustrations, fold-out maps, tables, references, appendices, some soiling to covers. This report is concerned with guidance for planning an evacuation in response to a Russian urban evacuation. While the life-saving potential of the planes is the principal motive for the evacuation, the crisis-management aspects of the evacuation are extremely important in some situations. The Soviet Union has highly developed plans to evacuate their population centers in a nuclear confrontation. Their plans include construction of expedient shelters in the outlying areas and continued operation of their essential industry by commuting workers. If they should successfully implement their plan, a subsequent nuclear exchange with the United States would cost them far fewer casualties than they suffered in World War II. Without a corresponding evacuation, the US could lose from 50 to 70 percent of its population. This asymmetry in vulnerability, if allowed to persist, would seriously weaken the bargaining position of the US President. To restore the balance, a great reduction in vulnerability can be achieved most economically by planning a US counterevacuation as a response to a Soviet evacuation. Russian historical experience with murderous invaders, most recently in World War II, has made authoritarian defense measures involving civilians and property in peacetime quite acceptable in their culture. In the US, widescale use of private property and civilian participation in defense activity are not feasible until the development of a grave crisis. Hence US evacuation plans must differ in several important respects from the Soviet plans. However, this preliminary study indicates that the US has ample material resources to move and shelter its population at least as effectively as the Soviet Union. Perhaps the most critical disadvantage of the US is in morale, as evidenced by the widespread misconception that effective survival measures are not possible., GPO, 1975, 2.5, Chatto Publishing -, 1958. Hardcover/pub.1958/Fair condition/159 pages - The story of the strange Russian expedition to Ethiopia which sailed from Odessa on December 10th,1888 and was dispersed by the french at Sagallo two mont hs later. [AE526989]. Hard Cover. Good., Chatto Publishing -, 1958, 2.5, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. xvi, 429, [3] pages. Footnotes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. DJ is price clipped and has wear, soiling, tears (some repaired with tape). DJ had been taped to boards. DJ has text on the inside. Name of previous owner stamped on fep. This is one of the RAND books in the Social Sciences. Dr. Kolkowicz had a distinguished career as a political scientist and as an analyst and consultant to influential think tanks in North America, including The Rand Corporation and the Institute for Defense Analyses. He came to UCLA in 1970 and retired in 1991 to write his story as a survivor of the Holocaust. He served as a consultant to and testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on National Security in 1972, during the SALT treaty negotiations and ratification. In 1983-85, he was co-Director of the Project on Arms Control which was chaired by former presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, and which culminated in the formation of the Carter Center at Emory University. His first writings were published under the Rand imprint and include 1963's Conflicts in Soviet Party-Military Relations, and The Impact of Modern Technology on the Soviet Officer Corps, published in 1966. His first book, The Soviet Army and the Communist Party is still considered the standard in the field of Soviet/Russian civil-military relations, and Kolkowicz was one of the few Westerners invited to address the Chinese Military Academy in Beijing. His writings include The Logic of Nuclear Terror and Soldiers, and Peasants and Bureaucrats: Civil-Military Relations in Communist and Modernizing Societies (with Andrzej Korbonski). This book investigates the relationship between the Communist Party and the military establishment in the Soviet Union. It indicates that there are several factors influencing the dynamics of that relationship, and thus the respective roles of the protagonists. Table of Contents: Introduction -- The Nature of Institutional Conflicts -- The Dynamics of Party-Military Relations -- The Historical Perspective -- The Party's Control System in the Military -- Institutional Dialogues: The Conflicts of Interests, Objectives, and Values -- The Dialogue on Professional Autonomy: Military Independence vs. Political Integration -- The Dialogue on Historical Roles: A Forum for Claims, Grievances, and Demands -- The Rise of the Stalingrad Group: A Study in Intramilitary Power Politics -- The Military and the Ouster of Khrushchev -- Dilemma of a Totalitarian Elite -- The New Technology and the Rise of the Technocrat: Their Effect on Party-Military Relations -- Assessing the Military's Role in Soviet Politics -- Appendices -- The Stalingrad Group -- Cycles in Party-Military Relations, 1918-1963 -- Patterns of the Party's Treatment of the Military Under Given Conditions -- The Party's Control Network in the Soviet Military -- Structure and Functions of the Party's Chief Political Organs in the Military -- A Political Morality Tale -- The Ascendance of the Military Viewpoint: Comparisons with the Recent Past., Princeton University Press, 1967, 2.25, Exposition Press -, 1962. Hardcover/pub.1962/Fair condition/76 pages - The constitution of the U.S.S.R. annotated and explained. [TK630976]. Hard Cover. Good., Exposition Press -, 1962, 2.5, Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, Office of External Relations, 2006. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xxviii, 669, [1] pages. Series Introduction by Asif Siddiqi. Introduction to Volume II. A Few Notes about Transliterations and Translations. List of Abbreviations, Footnotes. Illustrations. Index. Substantial highlighting and ink comments noted. Reference collection stamp on fep. No other markings noted. Some sticker residue on DJ. Boris Evseyevich Chertok (1 March 1912 - 14 December 2011) was a prominent Soviet and Russian rocket designer, responsible for control systems of a number of ballistic missiles and spacecraft. He was the author of a four-volume book Rockets and People, the definitive source of information about the history of the Soviet space program. From 1974, he was the deputy chief designer of the S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, the space aircraft designer bureau which he started working for in 1946. He retired in 1992. Between 1994 and 1999 Boris Chertok, with support from his wife Yekaterina Golubkina, created the four-volume book series about the history of the Soviet space industry. The series was originally published in Russian, in 1999. Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoirs of Academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian, fills that gap. Chertok began his career as an electrician in 1930 at an aviation factory near Moscow. Twenty-seven years later, he became deputy to the founding figure of the Soviet space program, the mysterious "Chief Designer" Sergey Korolev. Chertok's sixty-year-long career and the many successes and failures of the Soviet space program constitute the core of his memoirs, Rockets and People. In these writings, spread over four volumes, Academician Chertok not only describes and remembers, but also elicits and extracts profound insights from an epic story about a society s quest to explore the cosmos. In this Volume 2, Chertok takes up the story with the development of the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile and ends with the launch of Sputnik and the early Moon, Mars, and Venus probes. His engaging accounts of these dramatic and historic years reveal repeated failures, technical problems, and governmental struggles that marked the opening of the space race in the Soviet Union. An extensive technical discussion provides new details about the tragic Nedelin Disaster in October 1960 which killed over 100 workers attempting to launch an ICBM. Chertok calls it most horrific disaster in the history of missile and space technology. Contents: Three New Technologies, Three State Committees * The Return * From Usedom Island to Gorodomlya Island * Institute No. 88 and Director Gonor * The Alliance with Science * Department U * Face to Face with the R-1 Missile * The R-1 Missile Goes Into Service * Managers and Colleagues * NII-885 and Other Institutes * Air Defense Missiles * Flying by the Stars * Missiles of the Cold War's First Decade * On the First Missile Submarine * Prologue to Nuclear Strategy * The Seven Problems of the R-7 Missile * The Birth of a Firing Range * 15 May 1957 * No Time for a Breather * Mysterious Illness * Breakthrough into Space * Flight-Development Tests Continue * The R-7 Goes into Service * From Tyuratam to the Hawaiian Islands and Beyond * Lunar Assault * Back at RNII * The Great Merger * First School of Control in Space * Ye-2 Flies to the Moon and We Fly to Koshka, The Beginning of the 1960s, Onward to Mars...and Venus, and Catastrophes. This book was edited by Asif Siddiqi, a historian of Russian space exploration, Overall, this book contributes much new material to the literature about the Soviet space program., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, Office of External Relations, 2006, 3<

2006, ISBN: 0160766729

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[EAN: 9780160766725], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, Office of External Relations, Washington DC], VOSTOK, ROCKE… Meer...

[EAN: 9780160766725], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, Office of External Relations, Washington DC], VOSTOK, ROCKETS, LAUNCH VEHICLE, VLADIMIR BARMIN, BOGOMOLOV, BOGUSLAVSKIY, SERGEY KOROLEV, VALENTIN GLUSHKO, LEV GONOR, HELMUT GROTTRUP, ALEKSEY ISAYEV, MSTISLAV KELDYSH, VIKTOR KUZNETSOV, KHIMKI, ASSEMBLY AND TESTING, VASILIY MISHIN, MITROFAN NEDELI, Jacket, xxviii, 669, [1] pages. Series Introduction by Asif Siddiqi. Introduction to Volume II. A Few Notes about Transliterations and Translations. List of Abbreviations, Footnotes. Illustrations. Index. Substantial highlighting and ink comments noted. Reference collection stamp on fep. No other markings noted. Some sticker residue on DJ. Boris Evseyevich Chertok (1 March 1912 - 14 December 2011) was a prominent Soviet and Russian rocket designer, responsible for control systems of a number of ballistic missiles and spacecraft. He was the author of a four-volume book Rockets and People, the definitive source of information about the history of the Soviet space program. From 1974, he was the deputy chief designer of the S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, the space aircraft designer bureau which he started working for in 1946. He retired in 1992. Between 1994 and 1999 Boris Chertok, with support from his wife Yekaterina Golubkina, created the four-volume book series about the history of the Soviet space industry. The series was originally published in Russian, in 1999. Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoirs of Academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian, fills that gap. Chertok began his career as an electrician in 1930 at an aviation factory near Moscow. Twenty-seven years later, he became deputy to the founding figure of the Soviet space program, the mysterious "Chief Designer" Sergey Korolev. Chertok's sixty-year-long career and the many successes and failures of the Soviet space program constitute the core of his memoirs, Rockets and People. In these writings, spread over four volumes, Academician Chertok not only describes and remembers, but also elicits and extracts profound insights from an epic story about a society s quest to explore the cosmos. In this Volume 2, Chertok takes up the story with the development of the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile and ends with the launch of Sputnik and the early Moon, Mars, and Venus probes. His engaging accounts of these dramatic and historic years reveal repeated failures, technical problems, and governmental struggles that marked the opening of the space race in the Soviet Union. An extensive technical discussion provides new details about the tragic Nedelin Disaster in October 1960 which killed over 100 workers attempting to launch an ICBM. Chertok calls it most horrific disaster in the history of missile and space technology. Contents: Three New Technologies, Three State Committees * The Return * From Usedom Island to Gorodomlya Island * Institute No. 88 and Director Gonor * The Alliance with Science * Department U * Face to Face with the R-1 Missile * The R-1 Missile Goes Into Service * Managers and Colleagues * NII-885 and Other Institutes * Air Defense Missiles * Flying by the Stars * Missiles of the Cold War's First Decade * On the First Missile Submarine * Prologue to Nuclear Strategy * The Seven Problems of the R-7 Missile * The Birth of a Firing Range * 15 May 1957 * No Time for a Breather * Mysterious Illness * Breakthrough into Space * Flight-Development Tests Continue * The R-7 Goes into Service * From Tyuratam to the Hawaiian Islands and Beyond * Lunar Assault * Back at RNII * The Great Merger * First School of Control in Space * Ye-2 Flies to the Moon and We Fly to Koshka, The Beginning of the 1960s, Onward to Mars.and Venus, and Catastrophes. This book was edited by Asif Siddiqi, a historian of Russian space exploration, Overall, this book contributes much new material to the literature about the Soviet space program. Presumed first edition/first printing thus., Books<

2006, ISBN: 0160766729

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[EAN: 9780160766725], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, Office of External Relations, Washington DC], VOSTOK, ROCKE… Meer...

[EAN: 9780160766725], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, Office of External Relations, Washington DC], VOSTOK, ROCKETS, LAUNCH VEHICLE, VLADIMIR BARMIN, BOGOMOLOV, BOGUSLAVSKIY, SERGEY KOROLEV, VALENTIN GLUSHKO, LEV GONOR, HELMUT GROTTRUP, ALEKSEY ISAYEV, MSTISLAV KELDYSH, VIKTOR KUZNETSOV, KHIMKI, ASSEMBLY AND TESTING, VASILIY MISHIN, MITROFAN NEDELI, Jacket, xxviii, 669, [1] pages. Series Introduction by Asif Siddiqi. Introduction to Volume II. A Few Notes about Transliterations and Translations. List of Abbreviations, Footnotes. Illustrations. Index. Reference collection stamp on fep. No other markings noted. Some sticker residue on DJ. Boris Evseyevich Chertok (1 March 1912 - 14 December 2011) was a prominent Soviet and Russian rocket designer, responsible for control systems of a number of ballistic missiles and spacecraft. He was the author of a four-volume book Rockets and People, the definitive source of information about the history of the Soviet space program. From 1974, he was the deputy chief designer of the S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, the space aircraft designer bureau which he started working for in 1946. He retired in 1992. Between 1994 and 1999 Boris Chertok, with support from his wife Yekaterina Golubkina, created the four-volume book series about the history of the Soviet space industry. The series was originally published in Russian, in 1999. Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoirs of Academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian, fills that gap. Chertok began his career as an electrician in 1930 at an aviation factory near Moscow. Twenty-seven years later, he became deputy to the founding figure of the Soviet space program, the mysterious "Chief Designer" Sergey Korolev. Chertok's sixty-year-long career and the many successes and failures of the Soviet space program constitute the core of his memoirs, Rockets and People. In these writings, spread over four volumes, Academician Chertok not only describes and remembers, but also elicits and extracts profound insights from an epic story about a society s quest to explore the cosmos. In this Volume 2, Chertok takes up the story with the development of the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile and ends with the launch of Sputnik and the early Moon, Mars, and Venus probes. His engaging accounts of these dramatic and historic years reveal repeated failures, technical problems, and governmental struggles that marked the opening of the space race in the Soviet Union. An extensive technical discussion provides new details about the tragic Nedelin Disaster in October 1960 which killed over 100 workers attempting to launch an ICBM. Chertok calls it most horrific disaster in the history of missile and space technology. Contents: Three New Technologies, Three State Committees * The Return * From Usedom Island to Gorodomlya Island * Institute No. 88 and Director Gonor * The Alliance with Science * Department U * Face to Face with the R-1 Missile * The R-1 Missile Goes Into Service * Managers and Colleagues * NII-885 and Other Institutes * Air Defense Missiles * Flying by the Stars * Missiles of the Cold War's First Decade * On the First Missile Submarine * Prologue to Nuclear Strategy * The Seven Problems of the R-7 Missile * The Birth of a Firing Range * 15 May 1957 * No Time for a Breather * Mysterious Illness * Breakthrough into Space * Flight-Development Tests Continue * The R-7 Goes into Service * From Tyuratam to the Hawaiian Islands and Beyond * Lunar Assault * Back at RNII * The Great Merger * First School of Control in Space * Ye-2 Flies to the Moon and We Fly to Koshka, The Beginning of the 1960s, Onward to Mars.and Venus, and Catastrophes. This book was edited by Asif Siddiqi, a historian of Russian space exploration, Overall, this book contributes much new material to the literature about the Soviet space program. Presumed first edition/first printing thus., Books<

2006, ISBN: 9780160766725

Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, Office of External Relations, 2006. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Hardcover. Very good/… Meer...

Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, Office of External Relations, 2006. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xxviii, 669, [1] pages. Series Introduction by Asif Siddiqi. Introduction to Volume II. A Few Notes about Transliterations and Translations. List of Abbreviations, Footnotes. Illustrations. Index. Substantial highlighting and ink comments noted. Reference collection stamp on fep. No other markings noted. Some sticker residue on DJ. Boris Evseyevich Chertok (1 March 1912 - 14 December 2011) was a prominent Soviet and Russian rocket designer, responsible for control systems of a number of ballistic missiles and spacecraft. He was the author of a four-volume book Rockets and People, the definitive source of information about the history of the Soviet space program. From 1974, he was the deputy chief designer of the S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, the space aircraft designer bureau which he started working for in 1946. He retired in 1992. Between 1994 and 1999 Boris Chertok, with support from his wife Yekaterina Golubkina, created the four-volume book series about the history of the Soviet space industry. The series was originally published in Russian, in 1999. Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoirs of Academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian, fills that gap. Chertok began his career as an electrician in 1930 at an aviation factory near Moscow. Twenty-seven years later, he became deputy to the founding figure of the Soviet space program, the mysterious "Chief Designer" Sergey Korolev. Chertok's sixty-year-long career and the many successes and failures of the Soviet space program constitute the core of his memoirs, Rockets and People. In these writings, spread over four volumes, Academician Chertok not only describes and remembers, but also elicits and extracts profound insights from an epic story about a society s quest to explore the cosmos. In this Volume 2, Chertok takes up the story with the development of the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile and ends with the launch of Sputnik and the early Moon, Mars, and Venus probes. His engaging accounts of these dramatic and historic years reveal repeated failures, technical problems, and governmental struggles that marked the opening of the space race in the Soviet Union. An extensive technical discussion provides new details about the tragic Nedelin Disaster in October 1960 which killed over 100 workers attempting to launch an ICBM. Chertok calls it most horrific disaster in the history of missile and space technology. Contents: Three New Technologies, Three State Committees * The Return * From Usedom Island to Gorodomlya Island * Institute No. 88 and Director Gonor * The Alliance with Science * Department U * Face to Face with the R-1 Missile * The R-1 Missile Goes Into Service * Managers and Colleagues * NII-885 and Other Institutes * Air Defense Missiles * Flying by the Stars * Missiles of the Cold War's First Decade * On the First Missile Submarine * Prologue to Nuclear Strategy * The Seven Problems of the R-7 Missile * The Birth of a Firing Range * 15 May 1957 * No Time for a Breather * Mysterious Illness * Breakthrough into Space * Flight-Development Tests Continue * The R-7 Goes into Service * From Tyuratam to the Hawaiian Islands and Beyond * Lunar Assault * Back at RNII * The Great Merger * First School of Control in Space * Ye-2 Flies to the Moon and We Fly to Koshka, The Beginning of the 1960s, Onward to Mars...and Venus, and Catastrophes. This book was edited by Asif Siddiqi, a historian of Russian space exploration, Overall, this book contributes much new material to the literature about the Soviet space program., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, Office of External Relations, 2006, 3<

2006, ISBN: 9780160766725

Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, Office of External Relations, 2006. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Hardcover. Very good/… Meer...

Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, Office of External Relations, 2006. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xxviii, 669, [1] pages. Series Introduction by Asif Siddiqi. Introduction to Volume II. A Few Notes about Transliterations and Translations. List of Abbreviations, Footnotes. Illustrations. Index. Reference collection stamp on fep. No other markings noted. Some sticker residue on DJ. Boris Evseyevich Chertok (1 March 1912 - 14 December 2011) was a prominent Soviet and Russian rocket designer, responsible for control systems of a number of ballistic missiles and spacecraft. He was the author of a four-volume book Rockets and People, the definitive source of information about the history of the Soviet space program. From 1974, he was the deputy chief designer of the S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, the space aircraft designer bureau which he started working for in 1946. He retired in 1992. Between 1994 and 1999 Boris Chertok, with support from his wife Yekaterina Golubkina, created the four-volume book series about the history of the Soviet space industry. The series was originally published in Russian, in 1999. Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoirs of Academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian, fills that gap. Chertok began his career as an electrician in 1930 at an aviation factory near Moscow. Twenty-seven years later, he became deputy to the founding figure of the Soviet space program, the mysterious "Chief Designer" Sergey Korolev. Chertok's sixty-year-long career and the many successes and failures of the Soviet space program constitute the core of his memoirs, Rockets and People. In these writings, spread over four volumes, Academician Chertok not only describes and remembers, but also elicits and extracts profound insights from an epic story about a society s quest to explore the cosmos. In this Volume 2, Chertok takes up the story with the development of the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile and ends with the launch of Sputnik and the early Moon, Mars, and Venus probes. His engaging accounts of these dramatic and historic years reveal repeated failures, technical problems, and governmental struggles that marked the opening of the space race in the Soviet Union. An extensive technical discussion provides new details about the tragic Nedelin Disaster in October 1960 which killed over 100 workers attempting to launch an ICBM. Chertok calls it most horrific disaster in the history of missile and space technology. Contents: Three New Technologies, Three State Committees * The Return * From Usedom Island to Gorodomlya Island * Institute No. 88 and Director Gonor * The Alliance with Science * Department U * Face to Face with the R-1 Missile * The R-1 Missile Goes Into Service * Managers and Colleagues * NII-885 and Other Institutes * Air Defense Missiles * Flying by the Stars * Missiles of the Cold War's First Decade * On the First Missile Submarine * Prologue to Nuclear Strategy * The Seven Problems of the R-7 Missile * The Birth of a Firing Range * 15 May 1957 * No Time for a Breather * Mysterious Illness * Breakthrough into Space * Flight-Development Tests Continue * The R-7 Goes into Service * From Tyuratam to the Hawaiian Islands and Beyond * Lunar Assault * Back at RNII * The Great Merger * First School of Control in Space * Ye-2 Flies to the Moon and We Fly to Koshka, The Beginning of the 1960s, Onward to Mars...and Venus, and Catastrophes. This book was edited by Asif Siddiqi, a historian of Russian space exploration, Overall, this book contributes much new material to the literature about the Soviet space program., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, Office of External Relations, 2006, 3<