Wings of Fire: An Autobiography of APJ Abdul Kalam (1999) is an autobiography of A P J Abdul Kalam,[1] former President of India. It was written by Dr. Kalam[2] and Arun Tiwari.[3]
Kalam examines his early life, effort, hardship, fortitude, luck and
chance that eventually led him to lead Indian space research, nuclear
and missile programs. Kalam started his career, after graduating from
Aerospace engineering at MIT (Chennai), India, at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and was assigned to build a hovercraft prototype. Later he moved to ISRO and helped establish the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and pioneered the first space launch-vehicle program. During the 1990s and early 2000, Kalam moved to the DRDO
to lead the Indian nuclear weapons program, with particular successes
in thermonuclear weapons development culminating in the operation Smiling Buddha and an ICBM Agni (missile).