New RAND Special Memoranda 2026-06-11T18:16:44Z Copyright (c) 2026, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation https://www.rand.org/pubs/special_memoranda.html https://www.rand.org/pubs/special_memoranda/SM21.html A Revised Development Program for Ballistic Missiles of Intercontinental Range Bruno Augenstein 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z British defense historian D. MacKenzie in 1990 called SM-21 arguably the most important single document of the missile age. https://www.rand.org/pubs/special_memoranda/SM15.html Vulnerability of U.S. Strategic Air Power to a Surprise Enemy Attack in 1956 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Presents estimates of the effect of a surprise Soviet attack on the combat potential of the Strategic Air Command. https://www.rand.org/pubs/special_memoranda/SM11827.html Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship 1946-07-01T01:00:00Z 1946-07-01T01:00:00Z More than eleven years before the orbiting of Sputnik, history's first artificial space satellite, Project RAND released its first report: Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship (SM-11827), May 2, 1946.