CONTENTS

DEDICATION

  1    Project Lightning

  2    Santa Barbara Sound Laboratories

  3    The V-12 Program

  4    Seesaw

  5    Operation Rusty

  6    Project Whirlwind

  7    Memory

  8    Forging Bonds

  9    Project Nomad

10    Two Small Wires

11    The Cryotron

12    Lab Rats

13    The Missile Gap

14    Fame

15    The Post-Sputnik Effect

16    A Reciprocal Arrangement

17    The Missile Men

18    The Russians have Landed

19    A Package

20    The Extra Pieces of the Puzzle

21    Postscript

LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

CHAPTER NOTES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR