The Soviet Union built machines the West could not believe: a space shuttle that landed itself, a supersonic airliner before the Concorde, submarines faster than any torpedo, rockets bigger than the Saturn V.

Many of them failed. And almost every failure was decided by a person, not by bad luck.

ACTS OF MAN tells the stories behind the Soviet and Russian machines that went wrong: the spacecraft, aircraft, submarines, rockets and reactors, the warnings that were ignored, the deadlines that came first, and the people who paid for it.

There are no acts of God. Only acts of man.

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