What Kinds of Guns are They Buying for Your Butter?: A Beginner's Guide to Defense, Weaponry, and Military Spending
- ISBN-10
- 0688013740
- ISBN-13
- 9780688013745
- Category
- National security
- Pages
- 428
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982
- Authors
- Sheila Tobias, Peter Goudinoff, Stefan Leader
Description
The first time the Germans successfully launched a V - 2 rocket , Wernher von Braun ( the “ father ” both of German missile technology and of our own ) is said to have quipped , “ It was a great success , but it landed on the wrong ...
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