"Kev" wrote in message
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Larry Dighera wrote:
ENTHUSIASM for the nuclear-powered bomber project in the United States
blows alternately hot and cold. Mr. R. E. Gross, chairman of Lockheed
Aircraft, one of the two companies with contracts to develop the
airframes (the other being Convair) has said recently that if the
American government were to give the "go ahead signal", Lockheed could
have an aircraft ready to make its first flight in the mid-1960s.

This article was originally published in New Scientist on 11 July 1957

Yep, when I was a kid, I remember building a (Revell?) model of a
prototype atomic bomber. We were so convinced back then that we'd
have atomic-powered everything... both automobiles and rocket ships to
the moon.

Thanks for the memories!
Kev


Didn't the USAF take a working (albeit small) reactor aloft in a B29 "back
in the day?"

Jay B