Links
National Reconnaissance Office
www.nro.gov
Find out about Corona, the nation's first photoreconnaissance
satellite system, which operated from August 1960 to May
1972.
Federation of American Scientists—UAVs
www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/uav.htm
See an annotated list of all the UAVs developed in the U.S. for
reconnaissance and combat since the 1950s.
Wallops Flight Facility UAV Homepage
uav.wff.nasa.gov
This NASA Web site maintains a detailed list of UAVs currently
used and in development and provides a photo gallery of
UAVs.
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)—Sandia National
Laboratories
www.sandia.gov/radar/sar.html
Discover what SAR is and how it is used and see a collection of
SAR imagery and movies.
GlobalSecurity.org
www.globalsecurity.org
Browse a large archive of military surveillance photographs
through history, from the Cuban missile crisis through recent
images of North Korea's nuclear weapons facilities.
Books
Smart Weapons: Top Secret History of Remote Controlled Airborne
Weapons
by Hugh McDaid and David Oliver. New York: Welcome Rain Press,
2000.
McDaid, a filmmaker, and Oliver, a leading expert on military
aviation, teamed up to produce this comprehensive book about
unmanned aerial vehicles—the only such text available to the
general public. McDaid and Oliver offer an extensive collection of
color photographs and diagrams as well as detailed histories of
all the major UAVs.
Trust But Verify: Imagery Analysis in the Cold War
by
David T. Lindgren. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2000.
How did America assess the Soviet Union's military capabilities
during the Cold War? Beginning with the U-2 in the 1950s and
continuing with the series of increasingly sophisticated American
surveillance systems, Lindgren gives a detailed account of the
important role that imagery analysis played during this era.
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Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies
NOVA looks back to the 1940s, when American spies passed
their country's deepest scientific secrets to the
Soviets.
Supersonic Spies
The race to build the world's first supersonic passenger
airliner leads to a massive Cold War espionage effort.
Faster Than Sound
Top test pilots describe the dangers, mysteries, and
thrill of being the first to fly at supersonic speed.
Top Gun Over Moscow
Flights in Russia's powerful fighter jets are for sale
to foreign travelers. So is the Russian Air Force still
in the game?
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