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Missile defense - Curtis LeMay vs. Bernard Schriever

(NY Times) - "A Fiery Peace in a Cold War" (Amazon.com:
http://xrl.us/FieryPeace ), Neil Sheehan’s deeply
researched, compulsively readable and important book, ...
reminds us that, as the founders warned, the survival of
the United States depends on our ability not only to choose
wise presidents, but also to maintain a federal government
that attracts extraordinary talent at all levels. As
Sheehan shows us almost cinematically, this was
particularly true in the 1950s, when American leaders had
to decide whether to keep resisting Soviet power mostly
with strategic bombers, or to build an awe-inspiring force
of nuclear-tipped missiles.... The problem is how to
dramatize a nonevent. Telling a tale that unfolded in
conflicts behind Washington’s closed doors is more
difficult than recounting the boom and bang of
battlefields. But Sheehan succeeds...

Continued: http://xrl.us/FieryPeaceReview