Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III - Couverture souple

Michael J. Coumatos, former US Space Command Director in charge of war games and a former National Security Agency advisor, and William B. Scott, editor-in-chief of Aviation Week & Space Technology and a nine-year Air Force veteran, collaborate with William J. Birnes, host of the History Channel s UFO Hunters, to imagine how the first six hours of World War III might play out. The authors take the reader deep inside the top secret facility that houses America s Strategic Command in Omaha, where US military commanders are playing a nuclear war game. They don t know that the war they are gaming has already begun in space. Financed by Iran, a rogue Russian scientist destroys military surveillance and communications satellites with an intense particle beam. Soon the United States will be completely blind, allowing the Iranians to launch a nuclear-tipped Sahab 4 missile into the soft underbelly of Europe. It s a race against time. Chock full of the actual technologies and strategies the United States will have to use to protect their near-space assets, Space Wars describes a near-future nuclear threat that puts us all in the terrorists nuclear sights. In a more quiet time, Space Wars would be an exciting work of fiction. But the United States is at war, and the most frightening thing about Space Wars is that it s all too real.