Red Moon Rising Sputnik and the Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age - Matthew Brzezinski [162]
39 “I was amazed”: Author telephone interview with Sergei Khrushchev, November 27, 2005.
40 where the thermonuclear warhead would sit: Siddiqi, Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge, pp. 128-29.
41 “small-time cattle dealer”: Taubman, Khrushchev, p. 267.
“Their relations had become tense”: Author telephone interview with Sergei Khrushchev, November 27, 2005.
42 “Comrade Khrushchev carries out his work . . . intensively, steadfastly, actively and enterprisingly”: Ibid., p. 269.
“led us to a stand occupying a modest place in the corner”: Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev, p. 110.
43 Decrees had been signed advocating the “artificial moon”: Siddiqi, Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge, pp. 145, 149.
“You needed the constant support of power”: Author telephone interview with Sergei Khrushchev, November 27, 2005.
44 “The Americans have taken a wrong turn”: Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev, p. 111.
“It seemed as if he was still debating the matter”: Ibid.
“If the main task doesn’t suffer, do it”: Matt Bille and Erika Lishock, The First Space Race: Launching the World’s First Satellites (College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 2004), p. 63.
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46 “politeness is nice”: Gordon Harris, A New Command: The Story of a General Who Became a Priest (Plainfield, N.J.: Logos International, 1976), p. 116.
“Didn’t you see the speed limit sign back there?”: Ibid., p. 146.
47 so strongly favored the young air force that it now swallowed forty-six cents: Colonel Mike Worden, Rise of the Fighter Generals (Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.: Air University Press, 1998), p. 89. Also at http://aupress.au.af.mil/Books/Worden/Worden.pdf.
“You are aggressive. Some would say to a fault”: Harris, A New Command, p. 127. did not enjoy “a great reputation”: John B. Medaris, Countdown for Decision (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1960), p. 104.
49 Of the 7,920,000 automobiles sold by Detroit in 1955: Ambrose, Eisenhower, p. 386.
his salary was diminishing from $566,200 to $22,500: Time, December 1, 1952, at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,817434,00.html.
“what was good for the country was good for General Motors”: http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/secdef_histories/bios/wilson.htm.
50 “kennel dogs” and “worry about what makes the grass green”: Time, October 6, 1961, at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,827790,00.html.
“Damn it, how in the hell did a man as shallow”: William Bragg Ewald Jr., Eisenhower: The President (Englewood, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1981), p. 192.
“In his field, he is a competent man”: Robert H. Ferrel, ed., The Eisenhower Diaries (New York: Norton, 1981), p. 237.
military spending still ate up more than half the federal budget: http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/amh/AMH-26.htm.
50 the New Look Defense Policy: Herman S. Wolk, “The New Look,” Air Force Magazine, August 2003, http://www.afa.org/magazine/aug2002/08031ook.asp.
51 “ambassadors to unfriendly nations”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 104. The Redstone was a heavy-lift tactical missile capable of flinging a 3,500-pound nuclear warhead 200 miles: http://www.redstone.army.mil/cron2a.html; also http://www.boeing.com/history/bna/redstone.htm.
52 “to inflict very great, even decisive, damage”: Ferrel, ed., Eisenhower Diaries, p. 324.
“The world in arms is not spending money alone”: Walter A. McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age (New York: Basic Books, 1985), p. 114.
the air force had spent a mere $14 million developing its ICBM by 1954: Ibid., p. 104.
53 increased missile spending to $550 million in 1955: Ambrose, Eisenhower, p. 41. far below the $7.5 billion earmarked for beefing up the bomber fleet: Worden, Rise of the Fighter Generals, p. 187.
Did the accelerated spending “go far enough?”: “Discussion of the 258th Meeting of the National Security Council, Thursday, September 8, 1955,” 15 September 1955, NSC series, box 7, Eisenhower Papers, 1953-1961 (Ann Whitman file), Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas.
“I was always convinced