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A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert Cover Image Book Book

A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert / Karen Piper.

Piper, Karen Lynnea, 1965- (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780399564543
  • ISBN: 0399564543
  • Physical Description: x, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]

Content descriptions

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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Subject: Piper, Karen.
Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake, Calif.) > Employees > Biography.
Piper, Earl Marwin, 1922-2005.
Piper, Mary Dahlstrom.
United States. Office of Strategic Services > Biography.
Guided missiles > United States > History > Anecdotes.
Electronic technicians > United States > Biography.
California, Southern > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Young women > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Cold War.
Genre: Autobiographies.
Anecdotes.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Town of Plymouth.

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