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“down to the last screw”: Chertok, Rockets and People, p. 282.
“These documents were of inestimable value”: Huzel, Peenemünde to Canaveral, p. 151.
15 “My sister goes to university wearing men’s boots”: Chertok, Rockets and People, p. 303.
“We’d even hatched a plan to kidnap von Braun”: Ibid.
“One day, a group of men in American Army uniforms entered the school-house in Witzenhausen”: Ordway and Sharpe, The Rocket Team, p. 202.
16 “It would be an effective straitjacket for that noisy shopkeeper, Harry Truman”: Michael Stoiko, Soviet Rocketry (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), p. 73.
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18 Red banners hailing the Twentieth Party Congress: To re-create the Presidium visit to NII-88, I relied on author interviews and e-mail exchanges with Sergei Khrushchev, as well as his memoir, Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower (University Park, Pa.: Penn State University Press, 2000). in the lane reserved exclusively for party high-ups, rode the three other Presidium members . . . Nikolai Bulganin, Lazar Kaganovich, and Vyacheslav Molotov: Author telephone interview with Sergei Khrushchev, November 22, 2005.
pinned little notes with the Russian word prick: William Taubman, Khrushchev: A Man and His Era (New York: Norton, 2003), p. 232.
19 twenty-six-horsepower knockoffs of the 1938 Opel Kadett: http://www.autogallery.org.ru/m400.htm.
row after row after row of mind-numbingly identical five-story apartment buildings: Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, vol. 2, The Last Testament, edited by Strobe Talbott (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1977), p. 141.
20 “little man with fat paws”: Taubman, Khrushchev, p. 352.
“After a year or two of school, I had learnt how to count to thirty”: Ibid., p. 24.
21 “We weren’t gentlemen . . . sense”: Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, edited by Strobe Talbott, 2nd edition (Boston: Little, Brown, 1974), p. 88.
“He could barely hold a pencil in his calloused hand”: Taubman, Khrushchev, p. 56.
“My father felt this was the best, most honorable profession a man could have”: Author telephone interview with Sergei Khrushchev, November 22, 2005.
21 “He wanted me to see the theories”: Ibid.
22 “You see, I was studying to become a rocket scientist”: Ibid.
“Every villager dreamed of owning a pair of boots”: Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, edited by Strobe Talbott, 1st edition (Boston: Little, Brown, 1970), p. 266.
23 Khrushchev was unsettled by the rise to power of the Republican Party: Author telephone interview with Sergei Khrushchev, November 27, 2005.
“the Soviets sought not a place in the sun”: Peter Grose, Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996), p. 461.
National Intelligence Estimate of September 15, 1954: Gerald K. Haines and Robert E. Leggett, eds., CIA’s Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1941-1990: A Documentary Collection (Washington, D.C.: Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 2001), p. 49.
“agonizing re-appraisal”: Leonard Mosley, Dulles: A Biography of Eleanor, Allen, and John Foster Dulles and Their Family Network (New York: Dial Press, 1978), p. 307.
24 “liberate captive peoples” and “roll back”: Ibid.
prepare for “total war”: Herman S. Wolk, “The New Look,” Air Force Magazine, August 2003, http://www.afa.org/magazine/Aug2003/08031ook.asp.
“to create sufficient fear”: Ibid.
“We shall never be the aggressor”: Ibid.
2,280 atomic and thermonuclear bombs: David Alan Rosenberg, Constraining Overkill: Contending Approaches to Nuclear Strategy, 1955-1965 (Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 2003), at http://www.history.navy.mil/colloquia/cch9b.html.
the Strategic Air Command kept a third of its 1,200 B-47 long-range bombers: http://www.vectorsite.net/avb47_2.html.
25 Operation Power House: Ibid.
Operation Home Run: James Bamford, Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-secret National Security Agency (New York: Anchor Books, 2002), p. 36.
“With a bit of luck,