The official name of the Doomsday Plane is the E-4B Nightwatch. It serves as a National Airborne Operations Center (NAOC). It ...
During the height of the Cold War, Soviet engineers pursued the bold idea of a nuclear-powered bomber that could fly indefinitely. This video unpacks the engineering concepts, from nuclear jet engines ...
In the late stages of the Cold War, when nuclear optimism and strategic anxiety peaked together, Lockheed engineers quietly sketched out an aircraft so vast and so heavily armed that it blurred the ...