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Book Review


John F. Kennedy and the Missile Gap. By Christopher A. Preble. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. xii, 244 pp. $32.00, ISBN 0-87580-332-6.)
The "missile gap," the alleged U.S. inferiority in strategic nuclear launchers at a critical juncture of the Cold War (c. 1957–1962), long failed to attract sufficient scholarly attention. The first part of the story, involving President Dwight D. Eisenhower and charges that he tolerated a gap, was told in Peter Roman's Eisenhower and the Missile Gap (1995). Now part two, featuring John F. Kennedy as both a leading Eisenhower critic and then inheritor of the issue as Ike's successor, receives thorough treatment here. . . .
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