Hit to Kill
Subtitle: The New Battle over Shielding America from Missile Attack
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: November 6, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781586480868
Subjects: Defence strategy, planning & research; United States; Military Science; Defenses; Current Affairs; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Military readiness; Government - U.S. Government; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Current Events; International; Ballistic missile defenses; Ballistic missiles
First sentence: In the autumn of I944, the terror and destruction of German V-2 rockets, traveling faster than the speed of sound and slamming one-ton-explosive loads into British neighborhoods, marked the dawn of the missile age.