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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

political leadership with a much bigger picture. To give our leadership an estimate of the Soviet’s nuclear production capacity, the CIA also had to estimate how many nuclear weapons could the Soviet Union make. How big of a nuclear warhead could they carry (throw weight and yield)? Where were their production facilities?

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

Now we have ditched the cold war triad in the 21st century since the Soviet Union became Russia again and discovered its own style of capitalism.) That was our strategic posture from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s, the ’80s, and I think maybe even through the ’90s.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Reply Apolinaras Sinkevicius , on May 20, 2009 at 10:48 am Said: Though I had a very stable family with very good parents, I grew up in a country (Lithuania) that was occupied by Russia for 12 years of my life.

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