Red Moon Rising Sputnik and the Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age - Matthew Brzezinski [168]
122 “I was assured”: Eisenhower, Waging Peace, p. 546.
123 “coffin corner”: Wilson, “Flying the U-2.”
Every U-2 flight required presidential approval: Beschloss, Mayday, p. 118.
A U-2 had exploded once: http://www.blackbirds.net/u2/u2-timeline/u2tl50.html.
124 “seemed somewhat startled and horrified to learn that the flight plan”: Bissell, Reflections of a Cold Warrior, p. 112.
125 Only the new P-30 radar: Alexander Orlov, The U-2 Program: A Russian Officer Remembers, speech at 1998 CIA symposium, at http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/winter98_99/art02.html.
“According to fully confirmed data”: Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev, p. 159. Also author telephone interview with Sergei Khrushchev, February 10, 2006.
“What I remembered most”: Author telephone interview with Sergei Khrushchev, February 10, 2006.
126 The forays, or “ferret” missions as they were known: Douglas Stanglin, Susan Headden, and Peter Cary, “Secrets of the Cold War: Special Report,” US News & World Report, March 15, 1993, pp. 30-52.
“Representations and recommendations”: Ibid., p. 34.
“It would have meant war”: Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev, p. 157.
127 “The notion that we could overfly them”: Bissell, Reflections of a Cold Warrior, p. 113.
“For the first time”: July 17, 1956, CIA memorandum, CIA-RDP62B00844R00200020017-3. Declassified August 26, 2000.
128 “A few days ago a super-long-range”: Siddiqi, Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge, p. 161.
129 From its dish network atop a 6,800-foot peak: Burrows, This New Ocean, p. 225.
130 “Stop sending intruders into our air space”: Orlov, The U-2 Program.
“Father thirsted for revenge”: Author telephone interview with Sergei Khrushchev, November 27, 2005.
131 “They blamed us”: Richard Nixon, RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1978), p. 182.
a Ford repair shop at Fifth and K streets: Bissell, Reflections of a Cold Warrior, p. 104.
“I don’t ‘believe’ that the Soviets are ahead”: New York Times, February 6, 1957.
132 “Every day we don’t reverse our policy is a bad day for the Free World”: Ibid., August 18, 1957.
a West Coast military think tank, the RAND Corporation: Dickson, Sputnik, p. 46.
“Gone was the folksy fellow”: Burrows, This New Ocean, p. 145.
133 SR-71 Blackbird: http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/sr-71/html.
Bissell was alarmed that it was not even at the blueprint stage: Bissell, Reflections of a Cold Warrior, p. 134.
134 to personally inspect every Jupiter C launch: Bergaust, Wernher von Braun, p. 243.
“I knew our national effort”: Bissell, Reflections of a Cold Warrior, p. 134.
135 “in view of the competition we might face”: http://www.history.nasa.gov/sputnik/chapter2.html.
“It was unfortunate”: Killian, Sputnik, Scientists, and Eisenhower, p. 14.
“Ellender said that we must be out of our minds”: Ward, Dr. Space, p. 96.
“in the nearest future, the USSR will send a satellite into space”: Mstislav Keldysh, ed., Tvorcheskoye Naslediye Akademika Sergeya Pavlovicha Koroleva: Izbranye Trudy I Dokumenty (Moscow: Nauka, 1980), p. 376.
136 “The creation and launching of the Soviet”: F. J. Krieger, Behind the Sputniks (Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1958), p. 329.
“The Astronomical Council of the USSR”: Ibid., p. 288.
“It was hard not to feel that I was being set up”: Nixon, RN, p. 167.
“Dear Dick, I find that while I have thanked”: Ibid., p. 181.
138 “He flashes gold cuff links”: Randall B. Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition (New York: Free Press, 2006), p. 338.
“I’m going to have to bring up the nigger bill”: Ibid., p. 326.
“Southern whites are not bad people”: James T. Patterson, Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 81.
139 “What he had not done was provide leadership”: Ambrose, Eisenhower, p. 409.
“I got the impression at the time”: Halberstam, The Fifties, p. 686.
140 “We’re trapped”: And all other Little Rock quotes from inside high school quoted in Melba Patillo Beals, Warriors Don’t Cry