Red Moon Rising Sputnik and the Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age - Matthew Brzezinski [167]
109 “But Father, how could your plane land”: Natalia Koroleva televised interview for the documentary film The Secret Designer, Ryan Productions., Toronto, 1994.
“Nikita, come to the Kremlin”: Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev, pp. 233-34.
“We will bury you”: Medvedev and Medvedev, Khrushchev, p. 75.
110 The attack on Nikita Khrushchev began: The account of the attempted coup against Khrushchev is drawn from several interviews with Sergei Khrushchev in early 2006, his memoir of his father, Nikita Khrushchev’s own multivolume memoirs, and William Taubman’s Khrushchev.
111 a cow “knocking about the whole country”: Taubman, Khrushchev, p. 318.
“Leonid Ilyich barely had time to utter the first words”: Sergei Khrushchev, Khrushchev, p. 237.
“You’ve become the expert on everything”: Author telephone interview with Sergei Khrushchev, February 10, 2006.
“They couldn’t, as long as Father retained the loyalty of two key people”: Ibid.
112 signed 38,679 execution orders: Taubman, Khrushchev, p. 320.
“roared like an African lion”: Ibid., p. 323.
113 “Okay, Boris, you continue playing sick”: Chertok, Rakety I Lyudi, vol. 2, p. 190.
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115 On the morning of August 28, 1957: A list of all U-2 Soviet overflights can be found at http://www.spyflight.co.uk/u2.htm and at http://www.blackbirds.net/u2/u2-timeline/u2tl160.html.
The black, single-engine craft bore little resemblance: A physical description of the U-2 is available at http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/u2/ and at http://www.area51specialprojects.com/genesis_u2.html.
116 filling the tanks from portable fifty-five-gallon oil drums: Richard Bissell, Reflections of a Cold Warrior (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), p. 118.
a 12,000-foot-long spool of high-resolution Kodak film: Michael Beschloss, Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair (New York: Harper and Row, 1986), p. 92.
At 4:00 AM a doctor measured his temperature, pulse, and blood pressure: Lieutenant Colonel Charles Wilson, USAF, “Flying the U-2,” http://www.blackbirds.net/u2/u-2mission.html.
117 Richard Bissell sat in his downtown office on H Street, across from the Metropolitan Club: Bissell, Reflections of a Cold Warrior, p. 98.
“We must find ways”: James R. Killian, Sputnik, Scientists, and Eisenhower: A Memoir of the First Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1977), p. 79.
Jewish grandparents had emigrated from the same part of Odessa: Philip Taubman, Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of American’s Space Espionage (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003), p. 93.
118 Mark Twain House: Ibid., p. 115.
Allen Dulles was a significant shareholder: Grose, Gentleman Spy, pp. 371-73.
119 but Secretary Quarles had opted to go with a rival design by Bell Labs: Chris Pocock, “From the Shadows—Early History of the U-2,” Code One Airpower Magazine, January 2002, http://www.codeonemagazine.com/archive/2002/articles/jan_02/shadows/index.html. See also Bissell, Reflections of a Cold Warrior, p. 93.
The contract was shrouded in such secrecy: The classified nature of the program is described by Garfield Thomas, vice president of ISR programs at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, at http://www.area51specialprojects.com/genesis_u2.html.
Even within the White House staff, only two people: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Waging Peace: The White House Years, 1956-61 (New York: Doubleday, 1965), p. 544.
120 “The ampoule should be crushed between the teeth”: Taubman, Secret Empire, p. 178.
“We told Eisenhower”: Bissell, Reflections of a Cold Warrior, p. 121.
Only three bolts . . . connected: Beschloss, Mayday, p. 92.
“Holy smokes”: Taubman, Secret Empire, p. 131.
“Well, boys”: Killian, Sputnik, Scientists, and Eisenhower, p. 84.
“If the Soviets ever capture one of these planes”: Eisenhower, Waging Peace, p. 546.
121 Boyle’s law: Wilson, “Flying the U-2.”
“This is what would happen”: March 9, 1955, “Tomorrowland” telecast, Walt Disney Treasures, Buena Vista Home Entertainment,