Author: Pike
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
America's Space Sentinels
Author: Jeffrey Richelson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
During much of the Cold War, America's first line of defense was in outer space: a network of secret satellites that could provide instant warning of an enemy missile launch. The presence of these infrared sensors orbiting 22,000 miles above the earth discouraged a Soviet first strike and stabilized international relations between the superpowers, and they now play a crucial role in monitoring the missile programs of China, India, and other emerging nuclear powers. Jeffrey Richelson has written the first comprehensive history of this vital program, tracing its evolution from the late 1950s to the present. He puts Defense Support Program operations in the context of world events - from Russian missile programs to the Gulf War - and explains how DSP's infrared sensors are used to detect meteorites, monitor forest fires, and even gather industrial intelligence by "seeing" the lights of steel mills.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
During much of the Cold War, America's first line of defense was in outer space: a network of secret satellites that could provide instant warning of an enemy missile launch. The presence of these infrared sensors orbiting 22,000 miles above the earth discouraged a Soviet first strike and stabilized international relations between the superpowers, and they now play a crucial role in monitoring the missile programs of China, India, and other emerging nuclear powers. Jeffrey Richelson has written the first comprehensive history of this vital program, tracing its evolution from the late 1950s to the present. He puts Defense Support Program operations in the context of world events - from Russian missile programs to the Gulf War - and explains how DSP's infrared sensors are used to detect meteorites, monitor forest fires, and even gather industrial intelligence by "seeing" the lights of steel mills.
Young Sentinels
Author: Marion G. Harmon
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781492280781
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The reward for a job well done is another job.After the Sentinels' takedown of the second incarnation of Villains Inc., things are relatively quiet in the great metropolis of Chicago. Astra, aka Hope Corrigan, is able to breathe a little, to hang out with her friends, and even to attend classes (where her professors are starting to think she is a myth). But Blackstone is loading more training and responsibilities on her, and converging events threaten the compromises she has made to balance her superhero career and student life and to protect her family and friends.Worse, a new supervillain has come to town, and it will take all of Chicago's capes to defeat the threat of the Green Man - if he can be defeated at all. When a new supervillain group begins targeting anti-superhuman groups, it becomes apparent that even the Sentinels are going to need help.Because one thing is certain: Chicago is going to have a very bad day.========================Young Sentinels is the third book in the high-rated series begun by Wearing the Cape and continued in Villains Inc. and Omega Night.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781492280781
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The reward for a job well done is another job.After the Sentinels' takedown of the second incarnation of Villains Inc., things are relatively quiet in the great metropolis of Chicago. Astra, aka Hope Corrigan, is able to breathe a little, to hang out with her friends, and even to attend classes (where her professors are starting to think she is a myth). But Blackstone is loading more training and responsibilities on her, and converging events threaten the compromises she has made to balance her superhero career and student life and to protect her family and friends.Worse, a new supervillain has come to town, and it will take all of Chicago's capes to defeat the threat of the Green Man - if he can be defeated at all. When a new supervillain group begins targeting anti-superhuman groups, it becomes apparent that even the Sentinels are going to need help.Because one thing is certain: Chicago is going to have a very bad day.========================Young Sentinels is the third book in the high-rated series begun by Wearing the Cape and continued in Villains Inc. and Omega Night.
A Present to Youths and Young Men
Author: Pike
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
A Present to Youths & Young Men ...
Author: Edmund Shorthouse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Militarizing Outer Space
Author: Alexander C.T. Geppert
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 1349958514
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on weapons, warfare and violence, this provocative volume examines real and imagined endeavors of arming the skies and conquering the heavens. The third and final volume in the groundbreaking European Astroculture trilogy, Militarizing Outer Space zooms in on the interplay between security, technopolitics and knowledge from the 1920s through the 1980s. Often hailed as the site of heavenly utopias and otherworldly salvation, outer space transformed from a promised sanctuary to a present threat, where the battles of the future were to be waged. Astroculture proved instrumental in fathoming forms and functions of warfare’s futures past, both on earth and in space. The allure of dominating outer space, the book shows, was neither limited to the early twenty-first century nor to current American space force rhetorics.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 1349958514
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on weapons, warfare and violence, this provocative volume examines real and imagined endeavors of arming the skies and conquering the heavens. The third and final volume in the groundbreaking European Astroculture trilogy, Militarizing Outer Space zooms in on the interplay between security, technopolitics and knowledge from the 1920s through the 1980s. Often hailed as the site of heavenly utopias and otherworldly salvation, outer space transformed from a promised sanctuary to a present threat, where the battles of the future were to be waged. Astroculture proved instrumental in fathoming forms and functions of warfare’s futures past, both on earth and in space. The allure of dominating outer space, the book shows, was neither limited to the early twenty-first century nor to current American space force rhetorics.
Defending the Galaxy
Author: Maria V. Snyder
Publisher: Maria V. Snyder
ISBN: 1946381039
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Year 2522. Oh. My. Stars. Junior Officer Ara Lawrence here, reporting for duty. Again. It's situation critical for the security team and everyone in the base - including my parents - with a new attack from the looters imminent, a possible galaxy-wide crime conspiracy and an unstoppable alien threat. But this all pales in the face of my mind-blowing discovery about the Q-net. Of course, no one believes me. I'm not sure I believe me. It could just be a stress-induced delusion. That's what my parents seem to believe... Their concern for me is hampering my ability to do my job. I know they love me, but with the Q-net in my corner, I'm the only one who can help the security team beat the shadowy aliens from the pits we discovered. We're holding them at bay, for now, but the entire Milky Way Galaxy is in danger of being overrun. With battles on too many fronts, it's looking dire. But one thing I've learned is when people I love are in jeopardy, I'll never give up trying to save them. Not until my dying breath. Which could very well be today...
Publisher: Maria V. Snyder
ISBN: 1946381039
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Year 2522. Oh. My. Stars. Junior Officer Ara Lawrence here, reporting for duty. Again. It's situation critical for the security team and everyone in the base - including my parents - with a new attack from the looters imminent, a possible galaxy-wide crime conspiracy and an unstoppable alien threat. But this all pales in the face of my mind-blowing discovery about the Q-net. Of course, no one believes me. I'm not sure I believe me. It could just be a stress-induced delusion. That's what my parents seem to believe... Their concern for me is hampering my ability to do my job. I know they love me, but with the Q-net in my corner, I'm the only one who can help the security team beat the shadowy aliens from the pits we discovered. We're holding them at bay, for now, but the entire Milky Way Galaxy is in danger of being overrun. With battles on too many fronts, it's looking dire. But one thing I've learned is when people I love are in jeopardy, I'll never give up trying to save them. Not until my dying breath. Which could very well be today...
A Present to Youths and Young Men
Author:
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Category : Sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The Index
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
The Outlook
Author: Lyman Abbott
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
The Young Mandarin
Author: John A. Davis
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description