Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

See the Secret History bibliography for sources and supplemental reading. ———————– Swords Into Plowshares After the end of World War II, returning veterans were happy to beat swords into plowshares (and microwave tubes) on the Stanford campus. and the Soviet Union had nuclear weapons at this point.) military to rearm and mobilize.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

If you think the Cold War turned out the right side up (i.e. Bill Perry’s public life as Secretary of Defense and his subsequent work in preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is public knowledge. If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. Yet while the U.S.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

It’s a war you probably never heard of since most of it was classified, and both parties never wanted it public lest it got out of hand. Yet it was a war in which tens of thousands of Americans fought and hundreds died. Yet it was a war in which tens of thousands of Americans fought and hundreds died.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

The Vietnam war was winding down. The B-52 – When it Absolutely Had to Get There the Next Day During the Cold War, the B-52 bomber was one-third of what was called our strategic triad – meaning, it made up one-third of the U.S.’s s strategic weapons: ICBMs, nuclear submarines, and manned bombers.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

Their national technical means of verification made the world a safer place and hastened the end of the Soviet Union and the Cold War.) nuclear armaments industry during the cold war, so I guess that sort of fuzzy thinking might be a necessity. Or is it just someones end of innocence ? Just a hard problem.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

——– The Korean War catapulted Stanford University’s Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL) into a major player in electronic intelligence and electronic warfare systems. During a nuclear war in the 1950′s the Strategic Air Command was going to fly its bombers with nuclear weapons into the Soviet Union.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

We needed this data to build radar jammers that could make the Soviet air defense radars ineffective so our bombers with their nuclear payloads could reach their targets. Keep in mind that 32 of these planes were shot down in the Cold War.) But microwave tubes were just the beginning of Stanford’s relationship with the military.

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