New RAND Special Memoranda 2012-05-24T13:39:18Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/pubs/special_memoranda.html A Revised Development Program for Ballistic Missiles of Intercontinental Range http://www.rand.org/pubs/special_memoranda/SM21.html 1953-12-31T21:00:00Z 1953-12-31T21:00:00Z British defense historian D. MacKenzie in 1990 called SM-21 arguably the most important single document of the missile age. Vulnerability of U.S. Strategic Air Power to a Surprise Enemy Attack in 1956 http://www.rand.org/pubs/special_memoranda/SM15.html 1952-12-31T21:00:00Z 1952-12-31T21:00:00Z Presents estimates of the effect of a surprise Soviet attack on the combat potential of the Strategic Air Command. Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship http://www.rand.org/pubs/special_memoranda/SM11827.html 1946-06-30T21:00:00Z 1946-06-30T21:00:00Z 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.