Bernard W. Poirier

Broschiertes Buch

Witness to the End

Cold War Revelations 1959-1969

Beschreibung

Witness to the End describes formerly secret chapters between 1959-1969 of the Cold War when the U.S. caught up to the Soviet Union's lead in rockets and missiles. Drawing on his personal experience as the Foreign Programs Officer and Assistant to the Chief Scientist, Special Projects Office for the development of the Fleet Ballistic Missiles for US Nuclear submarines, Poirier leads the reader through confrontations and secret meetings at sea, and explains why President Eisenhower and President Kennedy had to place their bets on Polaris nuclear submarines. Witness to the End also contains various recently declassified photos, including a 1956 photo from a U-2. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Cold War, in espionage, in the Holocaust, foreign intrigue, nuclear deterrence and the evolution of its doctrine in foreign affairs.

Autor

Bernard W. Poirier is a Business Consultant and American writer based in Paris. He has been a lecturer at the MBA and DBA levels on international financing and on the World Bank at the fully accredited International School of Management in Paris. From 1959-1963, he was a civilian employee of the US Navy, where he worked on President J.F. Kennedy's Multilateral Nuclear Force proposal to NATO and on the president's position paper for his December 1962 Nassau meeting with Macmillan. He was also named to the Defense Department's negotiation team to hammer out the US/UK Polaris Sales Agreement, before ending as Foreign Programs Officer and Assistant to the Chief Scientists, Special Projects Office.

Produktdetails

• University Press of America
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 144mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780761818458
• ISBN-10: 0761818456
• Artikelnr.: 38491312