Only six airplanes were deployed, but Moscow and most of the Soviet Union fell under the combat radius of the nuclear-capable ...

The Convair B-36 Peacemaker was unlike any aircraft before it - a massive six-engine piston bomber with four jet engines strapped on for extra thrust. Built at the dawn of the Cold War, it was ...

The B-36 Peacemaker – the forgotten Cold War Giant with a Nuclear Mission. When the Cold War turned hot in the planning rooms ...

A Convair B-36J Peacemaker, the largest bomber ever built by the United States, was slowly rolled out onto the grounds of the Pima Air and Space Museum on Wednesday, July 1 at 9:15 am. The plane has ...

The dangers of using atomic energy to operate military aircraft. Robert Bernier Anything seemed possible during the Atomic Age: (clockwise, from top left) the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, cutaway ...