Red Moon Rising Sputnik and the Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age - Matthew Brzezinski [161]
“Soviet leaders may have become convinced”: Haines and Leggett, eds., CIA’s Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1941-1999, p. 27.
obliterating 118 of the 134 largest population and industrial centers: Rosenberg, Constraining Overkill, p. 8.
The giant plane could carry 70,000 pounds of thermonuclear ordnance over a distance of 8,800 miles: http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=83. an aging knockoff of the propeller-driven Boeing B-29 with a 2,900-mile range: http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/tu-4.htm.
26 to get there visitors had to take a series of right turns: James Harford, Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1997), p. 238.
27 only three people in the entire country would get one: Sergei Khrushchev, Khrushchev on Khrushchev. An Inside Account of the Man and His Era (New York: Little, Brown, 1990), p. 166.
“it was always in a whisper”: Author telephone interview with Sergei Khrushchev, November 22, 2005.
28 the president’s advisers had spent much of that summit trying to figure out who was really running the show: Stephen Ambrose, Eisenhower: Soldier and President (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), p. 392.
built in 1926 by the German firm of Rhein-Metall Borsig: Harford, Korolev, p. 78.
“This is our past”: Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev, p. 103.
29 “Father was no longer a novice when it came to missiles”: Author telephone interview with Sergei Khrushchev, November 22, 2005.
Beria, much like Hitler’s secret police chief, Heinrich Himmler: Neufeld, The Rocket and the Reich, p. 214.
“We gawked as if we were a bunch of sheep”: Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, 2nd edition, p. 46.
except that it was nine feet longer, and of a slightly wider girth, which allowed it to carry extra fuel, doubling its range to nearly 400 miles: Asif A. Siddiqi, Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge (Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2000), pp. 62-63.
30 despite all the 15,000-ruble bonuses offered to captive German engineers: Chertok, Rockets and People, p. 366.
31 They had hovered over his deathbed like ghouls: Taubman, Khrushchev, p. 238.
“If now, at the fountain of communist wisdom”: Haines and Leggett, eds., CIA’s Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1941-1990, p. 50.
7 million Soviet citizens: Roy A. Medvedev and Zhores A. Medvedev, Khrushchev: The Years in Power (New York: Norton, 1978), p. 15.
“Don’t you see what will happen?”: Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev, p. 95. and engulfed 18 million lives: Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History (New York: Anchor Books, 2003), p. 580.
32 “They had to be isolated”: Taubman, Khrushchev, p. 216.
“All it took was an instant”: Ibid., p. 202.
33 “A change from violence to diplomacy”: Haines and Leggett, eds., CIA’s Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1990, p. 52.
1,548,366 arrested: Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev, p. 98.
nearly always ended in death: Medvedev and Medvedev, Khrushchev, p. 20.
“He was taken to Lefortovo prison, interrogated, beaten”: Harford, Korolev, P-52.
34 This time it flew 390 miles: Siddiqi, Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge, pp. 98-99.
“The construction looked utterly incapable of flight”: Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev, p. 103.
The engine, an RD-103 designed by Glushko: Ibid., pp. 100-101.
35 “Korolev walked over to a map of Europe”: Ibid., pp. 103-4.
37 Khrushchev had approved the cinematic thaw: Pavel Loungine, director, The Moscow Skyscraper, British-French documentary film (Paris: Roche Productions, 2004).
Yields were so low that in 1953 per capita grain production: Medvedev and Medvedev, Khrushchev, p. 58.
38 which required relocating three hundred thousand farmworkers: Ibid. 14 and 20 percent of the Soviet economy, compared to 9 percent for the United States: Haines and Leggett, eds., CIA’s Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1990, p. 175.
39 “the striking re-allocation of expenditures