Rockets and Missiles: The Life Story of a Technology - A. Bowdoin Van Riper - Google Books

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Beginning with World War II, missiles transformed the art of war. For the first time, cities of warring nations were vulnerable to sudden, unannounced, long-distance attacks. At the same time, rockets made possible one of the great triumphs of the modern…