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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. It involved building stealth aircraft to deliver these precision weapons unseen by any enemy radar, and designing intelligence and reconnaissance systems that would target for them. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth.

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

Steve Blank

Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible. Skip the next section if you’re a history major.) Meanwhile the U.S.

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The Road Not Taken

Steve Blank

government kept up the pace. Hundreds of thousands of people worked on developing strategic weapons, bombers, our ICBM and SLBM missile programs, and the Apollo moon program. to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. Now In Print!