A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert / Karen Piper.
"A young woman who came of age with missiles presents a surreal and honest look at growing up on the China Lake missile range in the Mojave Desert, one of the most secretive weapons installations on Earth."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780399564543
- ISBN: 0399564543
- ISBN: 9780735220393
- Physical Description: x, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York, New York : Viking, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-322). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Becoming China Lakers -- A teenage weaponeer -- Dynamic instability -- The Cold War at home -- Anything can be a weapon -- Off target -- Life without weapons. |
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Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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