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54 “his lack of maturity”: Ibid., p. 105.
“You’re my boy”: Andrew J. Dunar, America in the Fifties (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 97.
“Mr. Wilson started to ask some odd questions”: Medaris, Countdown for Decision, p. 107.
“it was the first of many shocks to come”: Ibid.
55 John Foster Dulles, it was decided, would speak for the administration: Ambrose, Eisenhower, pp. 396-97.
56 “I will never answer another question on this subject”: Matthews, Kennedy and Nixon, p. 104.
“Every piece of scientific evidence that we have indicates”: Ibid., p. 113.
57 “You said something about ‘being afraid’”: Walter J. Boyne, “Stuart Symington,” Air Force Magazine, February 1999, http://www.afa.org/magazine/feb1999/0299symington.asp.
“He is a formidable-looking figure”: Time, January 19, 1948, at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,779517,00.html.
“We feel, with deep conviction”: Worden, Rise of the Fighter Generals, p. 42.
The USSR would have four hundred Bisons and three hundred Bears: John Prados, The Soviet Estimate: US Intelligence Analysis and Russian Military Strength (New York: Dial Press, 1982), p. 45.
“We believe that in the future”: Worden, Rise of the Fighter Generals, p. 87.
58 It revealed a high numeric series, which implied a vast production line: Grose, Gentleman Spy, p. 402.
“unconstitutionally contradicting patriots”: Prados, The Soviet Estimate, p. 44.
only 85 of the 700 new bombers projected by air force intelligence: http://www.thebulletin.org/articles.php?art_ofn=ja01staff.
“You’ll never get court-martialed”: Christopher Simpson. Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War (New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988), p. 64.
58 many of the air force officers who provided the testimony and information for the hearings were promoted: Prados, The Soviet Estimate, p. 50.
59 “frequent changes of scene and recreation”: Fred I. Greenstein, The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader (New York: Basic Books, 1982), p. 8.
“the much publicized golfing trips, the working vacations, and even the Wild West stories”: Ibid., p. 39.
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60 the continuous blaring of car horns: To re-create the Georgian uprising, I relied on Sergei Stanikov’s eyewitness account, which was published in the Russian journal Istochnik, no. 6, 1995. An English translation by Tahir Asghar is available at http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv5n2/Georgia.htm.
one of the first nations on earth to have adopted Christianity in A.D. 337: http://www.parliament.ge/pages/archive_en/history/his2.html.
61 “Great Son of the Georgian People” had been denigrated: Medvedev and Medvedev, Khrushchev, p. 70.
“A meeting was held at 4 o’clock in which I was present”: http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv5n2/Georgia.htm.
62 they were currently reading the manuscript of a young writer named Boris Pasternak: Taubman, Khrushchev, p. 385.
64 nine protesters were officially pronounced dead: Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev, p. 164.
65 Khrushchev . . . could easily “be beguiled”: Taubman, Khrushchev, p. 131.
Glushko was elegant and regal: V. F. Rakhmanin, ed., Odnazhy I Navsegda: Dokumenty I Lyudi o sozdatelye raketnykh dvigateley Valentnye Petrovichye Glushko (Moscow: Mashinostroyenye, 1998), p. 341.
Korolev, on the other hand, never wore a tie unless he had to: A. V Ishlinskiy, ed., Akademik S. P. Korolev: Uchonie, Inzhenier, Chelovek (Moscow: Nauka, 1986), p. 107.
66 “He ate very quickly”: Arkady Ostashov, Yuri Mozhorin, ed., Nachalo Kosmichiskoy Eri: Vospominaniya Veteranov Raketno-Kosmicheskoy Tekniki, vol. 2 (Moscow: RNITSKD, 1994), p. 44.
the rasp of the needle on the gramophone: Deborah Cadbury, Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for the Dominion of Space (New York: HarperCollins, 2006), p. 78.
“Glushko gave testimonies about my alleged membership of anti-Soviet