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Deep Black
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By William E. Burrows
Our Item Code: deep
Postage Code: book1
405 Pages, Mass-Market Paperback
Cover Size: 4 x 7 inches
Berkley Books
Date: 1986
ISBN: 0-425-10879-1
Country of Origin: USA
Added to Catalog: 6/15/97
(Revised 6/14/97)
WIRT: 5530x134
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Our Review |
Opinion of the webmaster, subject to debate |
Credibility
5
Very High |
Research Value
5
Very High |
Cultural Interest
3
Moderate |
Visual Information
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Style
NR
Not Rated |
Silliness
1
Very Low |
Wow Factor
3
Interesting |
Bargain
4
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Explanation of Ratings
Credibility = Very High: In general, this catagory is a rating of the author's intellectual discipline
and the strength of his argument (which are very high), not the veracity of his claims (which could be false in spite of the strong argument).
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This is THE reference on spy satellites, a must for anyone who's interested
in knowing about things our government would prefer you didn't know
about. Although suffering a little from the swift transformation of
the world since it was first published in 1986 (Uh, anyone see where
the Evil Empire wandered off to?), it remains the best treatment on
just what our spy satellites are capable of, how they are controlled,
both technically and politically, and how the very black security
blanket wrapped around them works. Meticulously researched and
footnoted, this is a serious book and not a light read. In many ways
it is a good compliment to Bamford's The Puzzle Palace.
-- tm
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From the Book Cover
A tenth of the way to the moon, in the icy blackness
of space, a U.S. reconnaissance satellite pointed
toward earth eavesdrops on a telephone conversation
between two Soviet generals. Another spacecraft
photographs a Soviet aircraft carrier under
construction at a distance of 504 miles with such clarity that
windows in the shipyard are easily discernible. Still
another, racing 24,000 miles over Siberia in eight
hours, measures the pulse of Soviet ABM radar while
pretending to be a mere communication relay satellite...
They are the cutting edge of aerospace technology - the
top-secret billion dollar instruments of superpower
espionage. They are sentinels in space, hightech spy
satellites code-named ARGUS, MAGNUM and KEYHOLE.
They are the method by which Washington keeps tabs on
the world while coming to grips with the most important
question of our time: Can the United States adequately
verify arms control agreements? And even more staggering:
What's in store for the future?
DEEP BLACK
"EXCELLENT . . . Burrows has assembled in one
readable volume a vast mass of previously scattered
or inaccessible data on an important aspect of the
space and defense programs. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED."
Booklist
"ABSORBING . . . Those who try to follow arms
control issues will revel in a wealth of detail about
verification considerations that were previously only
guesses; BURROWS REVEALS THE SECRET
UNDERSIDE OF A VERY PUBLIC SET OF
PROBLEMS."
Orbis, A Journal of World Affairs
"FASCINATING . . . Burrows has done a
masterful job of rescuing from under mountains of
classification and misunderstanding a cogent picture of
intelligence-gathering from space--past, present and
future.''
Warren Strobel, Insight
"THE STANDARD REFERENCE ON ITS SUBJECT "
Air & Space
"An extraordinary book with an extraordinary subject...Anyone
with a thirst for understanding the complex worlds of espionage,
foreign policy and nuclear diplomacy will want a ticket inside."
Philadelphia Enquirer
"Riveting reading of the here and now, and of the shape of things to come...ominous."
Kirkus Reviews
"An eye-opener!" Richmond Times-Dispatch
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
- 1. The Need to Know
- 2. Denied Territory
- 3. Assets, Black and Skunky
- 4. Threats, Real and Imagined
- 5. The Cuban Missile Crisis: Pictures at an Exhibition
- 6. Arms Control 8nd the Acceptance of "Spies" in the Sky
- 7. The Air Breathers: Blackbirds and Cobras
- 8. Foreign Bases: A Net Spread Wide
- 9. Through the Keyhole
- 10. Real Time: The Advent of Instant Intelligence
- 11. In the Arena: Cosmos, Spoofing, and Killer Satellites
- 12. Reconnaissance as Politics: Nicaragua and the Missing MiGs
- 13. Into the Future: HALO, SPOT, Radar Farms, and other Exotic Assets
- 14. Arms Control Verification and National Security
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Glossary
Notes
Sources
Index
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About the Author
WILLIAM E. BURROWS has written about aviation and
space for more than two decades. He has reported for
The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall
Street Journal, and The Richmond Times-Dispatch,
and is the author of three previous books: Richthofen,
Vigilante, and On Reporting the News. Mr. Burrows's
articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The New
York Times Magazine, Harper's, The Sciences, and
Harvard Magazine.
Mr. Burrows holds two degrees in international
relations from Columbia University and is at present a
professor of journalism and director of the Science
and Environmental Reporting Program at New York
University.
-- From the Publisher
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