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 ...
In 1969, Lockheed dreamed up the CL-1201, a nuclear-powered aircraft so massive it could carry its own fleet of jets and missiles into battle. With a wingspan of over 1,100 feet, it would have dwarfed ...
The Cold War was a difficult time, with elementary school children practicing "Duck and Cover" nuclear attack drills while some families set up fallout shelters in their homes and yards. The chief ...