Vanguard of American Atomic Deterrence
Subtitle: The Sandia Pioneers, 1946-1949
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: November 5, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780275978198
Subjects: History; Warfare & Defence; History - Military / War; Military; Military - Nuclear Warfare; Military - Strategy; Military - Weapons; History / Military / General; Military - General; Army; Army.; Deterrence (Strategy); Engineer Battalion, 38th; Nuclear weapons; United States; United States.
First sentence: Stopwatch in hand, Colonel Gilbert (Gil) Dorland stared anxiously earthward through the open bomb bay of his B-29, an atomic-capable "Silver-plate" from the 509th Bombardment Group, whose planes had dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.