Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA and the Hidden Storyof America’s Space Espionage,

That the United States has conducted a program of high-altitude and space-borne photographic reconnaissance since the mid-1950s is hardly a secret. With the public release of many previously classified source documents and project histories, the time is right for Philip Taubman’s history of the strategic issues, politics, personalities, and technologies that drove the development of America’s extraordinary space reconnaissance capability

The Legacy of the White Oak Laboratory,

The Navy has had a remarkable and pro- ductive group of in-house research and development laboratories. Sadly, with the drawdowns of the post–Cold War era, many have been closed, among them the “White Oak Laboratory”—the Naval Ordnance Laboratory at White Oak, Maryland. WOL, as it was popularly known, gave the Navy a tremendous leg- acy of technology, weapons, and people. Fortunately, that legacy has been pre- served by William Anspacher, Betty Gay, Donald Marlowe, Paul Morgan, and Samuel Raff in this richly detailed ac- count of the laboratory’s history