LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILES by Burgess, E. reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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LONG-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILES

by Burgess, E.

London, 1961: Chapman and Hall, 255 pages, $5.00 (available through Macmillan Co.,

Eight chapters entitled "Ballistic Missile Programme," "Ballistic Misile Arsenal," "Trajectories," "Vehicles," "Re-entry Bodies," "Missile Support," "Defence," and "Plougshares," make up this book on long-range nissiles. The book provides a comprehensive survey of how missiles are ntegrated into the armed forces and how they operate as weapons systems, support equipment necessary for their successful operations, im- portance of reliability, tactics, strategy, anti-IRBM and ICBM defense, etc. . The last chapter is devoted to the conversion of IRBMs and ICBMs into ;pace carrier vehicles. Various satellite projects are discussed, as well as several space probes.


Extracted from the 1962 Publication Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961. by Frederick I. Ordway III