This never-before-told story details Schriever’s quest to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, and describes American efforts to develop the unstoppable nuclear-weapon delivery system, the intercontinental ballistic missle, the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust rather than to be fired in anger.
Prologue: A Rite of Succession
Chapter 1. ELLIS ISLAND AND A TRAGEDY IN TEXAS
Chapter 2. A BENEFACTOR AND THE HOUSE ON THE TWELFTH GREEN
Chapter 3. THE VIRTUES OF GOLF
Chapter 4. WHITE SILK SCARVES AND OPEN COCKPITS
Chapter 5. ENTERING THE BROTHERHOOD
Chapter 6. A FIASCO AND REFORM
Chapter 9. “LET’S DIVE-BOMB THE BASTARDS”
Chapter 12. SPIES INSIDE THE BARBED WIRE
Chapter 13. “THE BALANCE HAS BEEN DESTROYED”
Chapter 14. THE STATE THAT WAS STALIN
Chapter 15. A CONFRONTATION AND A MISREADING
Chapter 16. CONTAINING THE MENACE
Chapter 17. NEITHER RAIN, NOR SNOW, NOR SLEET, NOR FOG
Chapter 18. STALIN GETS HIS BOMB
Chapter 19. THE CONSEQUENCES OF DELUSION
Chapter 20. GOOD INTENTIONS GONE AWRY
Chapter 21. HAP ARNOLD’S LEGACY
Chapter 24. INTO THE LION’S DEN
Chapter 25. MOSCOW OPTS FOR ROCKETS
Chapter 26. A NUCLEAR REACTOR IN THE SKY
Chapter 27. LOW-LEVEL TACTICS AND THE FLYING BOOM
Chapter 28. THE LAST TANGLE AND AN AMBUSH
Chapter 29. SEEKING SCIENTIFIC VALIDATION
Chapter 30. WHEN HUNGARY WAS MARS
Chapter 31. A FASCINATION WITH EXPLOSIONS
Chapter 33. MARSHALING THE EXPERTISE
Chapter 34. THE TEA POT COMMITTEE
Chapter 36. “OKAY, BENNIE, IT’S A DEAL”
Chapter 37. A SCHOOLHOUSE AND A RADICAL NEW APPROACH
Chapter 38. THE GURU OF ROCKETS
Chapter 39. A PROBLEM WITH TOMMY POWER
Chapter 40. HOW GREED CORRUPTS
Chapter 41. AN ASSAULT FROM AN UNEXPECTED QUARTER
Chapter 42. A SENSE OF ADVENTURE
Chapter 43. NO TIME FOR FAMILY
Chapter 45. A DIFFICULT DIALOGUE AT GENEVA
Chapter 46. DAZZLING THE MONARCH
Chapter 47. NO MORE NITPICKING
Chapter 50. THE TEAM OF METTLER AND THIEL
Chapter 51. JOHN BRUCE MEDARIS AND WERNHER VON BRAUN
Chapter 52. THE CAPE OF THE CANEBRAKE VS. “MOOSE” MATHISON
Chapter 53. A FEW GRAINS OF SAND
Chapter 54. MEDARIS GOES FOR THE ICBM
Chapter 55. THE RELUCTANT RESCUER
Chapter 58. THOR READIES FOR ENGLAND
Chapter 59. JAMIE WALLACE’S THOR SHOW
Chapter 60. THE BIGGEST AIRLIFT SINCE BERLIN
Chapter 61. “ROY … I WANT YOU TO GET ME CAMP COOKE”
Chapter 64. THE TRIALS OF ATLAS AND A CHRISTMAS SURPRISE
Chapter 65. WHOSE MISSILE GAP?
Chapter 66. A VICTORY DESPITE THE BUGS
Chapter 67. MINUTEMAN: ED HALL’S TRIUMPH
Chapter 68. “YOU COULDN’T KEEP HIM IN THAT JOB”
Chapter 69. A WOULD-BE SPY IN THE SKY GOES AWRY
Chapter 70. MATHISON SNATCHES THE PRIZE
Chapter 71. DISCOVERER GOES “BLACK” INTO CORONA
Chapter 72. A HAREBRAINED SCHEME
Chapter 73. PALM TREE DISGUISES
Chapter 74. KEEPING THE MILITARY ON THE LEASH
Chapter 75. “USE ’EM OR LOSE ’EM”
Chapter 76. LEMAY AND TOMMY POWER AS THE WILD CARDS
Chapter 77. AVOIDING GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
Chapter 78. BUYING TIME FOR THE EMPIRE TO IMPLODE
Chapter 79. JOHNNY VON NEUMANN FINDS FAITH BUT NOT PEACE
Chapter 80. “THE SLOWEST OLD TREV HAS EVER GONE IN A CADILLAC”
Chapter 81. LOSING IT ALL AND FORGIVING A BROTHER
Chapter 83. A REUNION WITH HAP
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