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Avoiding Armageddon describes the herculean efforts expended by the United States and the Soviet Union to best each other in rocketry during the Cold War years, interspersed with attention-grabbing accounts of the engaging personalities involved. Both countries stood on a precarious knife-edge as each sought supremacy in nuclear weapons, waiting for the other to strike before mounting a devastating counterstrike. The book clearly explains the weaponry developed by both superpowers during an escalating nuclear arms race, how the Soviets managed to pull ahead at first, and how they overcame unbelievable handicaps and heart-rending space disasters to come within a hair's breadth of winning the Space Race against their implacable foe. Unbeknownst to the general public (and undoubtedly a great surprise to the reader), the Soviets built their own Moon rocket, the N1, as a counterpart to the American Saturn V. They launched it four times, and came very close to matching America's accomplishments. In fact, Soviet design bureau leaders had developed ambitious plans for building lunar colonies and even manned missions to Mars to outpace the United States had the Space Race continued.

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Prolific author and space transportation systems expert with 45+ years of progressive experience in systems engineering and integration of aerospace and defense systems, systems analysis and trade studies, formulation of system requirements, verification, and validation. Walter Sierra has worked in a variety of assignments from staff engineer to branch supervisor, in locations from major rocket firms in California to the halls of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and many places in between. Author of a four-book series (2021) entitled Beyond the Saga of Rocket Science which is easily readable for those interested in the history of the world's space programs: (1) The Dawn of the Space Age, (2) Avoiding Armageddon, (3) In Space To Stay, (4) The Never-Ending Frontier. These books have received excellent reviews by Kirkus Reviews, the US Review of Books, Foreword Clarion Reviews, Pacific Book Review, and Blue Ink Review.Author Website: https: //www.waltersierra.com

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