Documents the top-secret innovations of a group of 1950s scientists, engineers, businessmen, and government officials that served to revolutionize intelligence, warfare, and defense technologies, from the invention of the U-2 and SR-71 spyplanes to the creation of early spy satellites. Reprint. 20,0
Author Biography
Philip Taubman, deputy editorial page editor of the New York Times, has reported on national security and intelligence issues for more than twenty years. The winner of two George Polk awards, he was The Times' Moscow bureau chief in the late 1980's and directed the Washington bureau's coverage of the Persian Gulf War. He lives in New York City.
