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(More customer reviews)The author details the very unknown story of US Navy's first attempt to get nuclear attack capability. At that time the only way to carry out a nuclear attack was to drop it from a bomber. A 4 Ton bomb required a big aircraft to lift it. And a big airplane ned a big carrier to operate from. Neither the bomber nor the carrier existed so a futuristic program was launched to turn both concepts into hardware.
This comprehensive volume reviews every aircraft design proposed to the contest. Some of the manufacturers made full use of available WWII German research into their Science Fiction looking bomber designs. At the end, USAF rivalry and new nuclear vector options resulted in the project cancellation. Information about it remained almost unavailable since Jared A. Zichek compiled it into this beautiful edited volume in the Schiffer tradition. While neatly being a graphic than text book, I found excellent reading in it too. The book has an exhaustive collection of original technical drawings.
I highly recommended it to people interested in unbuilt projects and technology (both naval and aerospace), naval power technology, nuclear weapon technology.
Thanks a lot Mr Zichek!
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