United States Continental Missile Defense,

Early Years 1945-1960

Bibliography

• Bukharin, Kadyshev, Miasnikov, Prodvig, Sutyagin, Tarasenko, and Zhelezov Boris.  Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces.  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001
• Carter, Ashton B and Schwartz, David N.  Ballistic Missile Defense.  The Brookings Institution and the Massachusetts Institution of Technology, 1984
• Durch, William J.  The ABM Treaty and Western Security.  Ballinger Publishing Company.  Cambridge, Massachusetts A Subsidiary of Harper and Row, Publisher Inc.  1988
• Johnson, Nicholas L.  Soviet MilitayStrategy In Space.  Jane's Publishing Company Limited, 1987
• McGeorge, Bundy.  Danger and Survival.  Published in the United States by Random House Inc., New York, 1988
• Norby M. O.  Soviet Aerospace Handbook.  Department of the Air Force Headquarter US Air Force.  Washington DC 20330, May 1978
• Survival Under Atomic Attack.  Distributed by Office of Civil Defense State of California.  California state printing division October 1950
• The Nuclear Almanac Confronting The Atom In War and Peace.  Compiled and edited by faculty members at M.I.T.  Copyright 1984

-    Internet Sites

• Cagle, Mary T.  Nike Ajax Historical Monograph Development, Production, and Deployment of the nike Ajax Guided Missile System 1945-1959.  http://ed-thelen.org/mono-1-2.html Published June 30, 1959
• Miller, Herbert I.  Suggestion re the Intelligence value of Aquatone.  The George Washington University The National Security Archive. Memorandum for Project director.   http://www.gwu.edu/ July 17, 1956
• Nike Missile Site.  Welcome to SF-88!  An educational Cold War museum in the heart of GGNRA.  National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Golden Gate National Recreation Area.   http://www.nps.gov/goga/nike/index.htm  
• Presidio of San Francisco.  Cold War Era 1952 to 1974.  National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Golden Gate National Recreation Area.  http://www.nps.gov/prsf/coast_defense/nike/index.htm October 18, 2005

Special Thanks

• We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to the Cold War veterans and volunteers at the Fort Barry Nike Missile Site SF-88 with a special thanks to Alec Gyorfi, John Porter, and Jerry Feight.

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DoniloHarmon and Michael Shepherd