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From: jon@cs.washington.edu (Jon Jacky)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Nuclear Powered aircraft?
Summary: References to historical article, primary sources on nuke plane
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Date: 29 Nov 89 04:35:32 GMT
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From: jon@cs.washington.edu (Jon Jacky)

Quite by chance I ran across an article on the nuclear powered airplane
project, which comes up occassionally in this newsgroup.  I've never seen
anyone actually cite any references on this, so I thought it might be useful
to pass this along.  The article is:

Ulrich Albrecht, "The Nuclear-Propelled Bomber --- A Faked Arms Race Between
the US and USSR", pps. 127-164 in Hans Gunter Brauch, editor, MILITARY 
TECHNOLOGY, ARMAMENTS, DYNAMICS, AND DISARMAMENT  MacMillan Press Ltd., 
London, 1989.

I didn't read the article, but in the first paragraph the author says it
was clear from the start the thing could never work.  

This article cites two other sources, which appear to be key references.
The most important government report on the project was:

REVIEW OF MANNED AIRCRAFT NUCLEAR PROPULSION PROGRAM, Report to Congress
by the Comptroller General, Washington DC February 1963, GA 1.13 N8813
(this last looks like a Superintendent of Documents number, a cataloging 
system used for US government documents).

There was something called the "Darley Memorandum" which gave the rationale
for building the thing.  It was reprinted in full in AVIATION WEEK, 16 March
1959.

- Jonathan Jacky, University of Washington


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