I appreciate the publisher allowing me to read this book. This was a fascinating read I couldn't put down until I finished it.

A fascinating look at the history of Apollo in an entirely new format... This was a great angle to look at a well-known event.

This is a reissued edition of a book written shortly after the events it described took place. As such, it has the benefit of a contemporaneous feel, in the sense of something that is almost ‘live’. At the same time, it inevitably lacks the additional information and evidence that could place the re-entry of, and subsequent radioactive contamination of large areas of Canadian territory by, the USSR Cosmos reconnaissance satellite in a proper historical context. The writer conveys the excitement and fears that accompanied the search for the highly enriched uranium 235 core of the reactor on the satellite. For this reader, however, it occasionally strayed rather too much into rather formulaic journalese; the overall impression was, nonetheless, very positive. For readers who did not live through the tense Cold War years, it provides an insight into the secrecy that permeated much of international relations and the ways in which governments sought to limit public access to sensitive information.