Atlas: The Ultimate Weapon.(Book review)
Publication Date: 22-JUN-07
Publication Title: Air Power History
Format: Online
Author: Sturdevant, Rick W.

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Atlas: The Ultimate Weapon. By Chuck Walker with Joel Powell. Ontario, Canada: Apogee Books [Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc.], 2005. Maps. Tables. Diagrams. Illustrations. Photographs. Notes. Appendices. Glossary. Index. Pp. 308. $29.95 ISBN: 1-894959-18-3

Acquisition of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) remains one of the most complex programs ever undertaken by the United States Air Force. Chuck Walker's book offers a "contractor's view" of Atlas development. As head of the Atlas Test Planning Group for Convair-Astronautics (later General Dynamics) during 1953-1958 and as...



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