Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake - Ron Westrum - Google Books

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In the mid-1950s a small group of overworked, underpaid scientists and engineers, working on a remote base in the Mojave Desert, developed a weapon no one had asked for but that everyone was looking for. Sidewinder is the story of how that unorthodox team…