OPERATIONS RESEARCH, ARMAMENT, LAUNCHING by Merrill, G., H. Goldberg, and R. H. Helmholz reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

OPERATIONS RESEARCH, ARMAMENT, LAUNCHING

by Merrill, G., H. Goldberg, and R. H. Helmholz

Princeton (New Jersey), 1956: D. van Nostrand Co., Inc., 508 pages, $12.50

The third volume of the "Principles of Guided Missile Design" series (G. Merrill, ed) is divided into three sections in accordance with its title. The operations research part of the book shows how missile requirements are derived, performance specifications set, systems evaluated, and employment plans made. The armament section covers characteristics for armament, targets, warheads, fuzes, arming and safety components, etc., while the launching section deals with boosters, catapults, airborne launchers, design principles, and so forth.

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