Topic: Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion

Stanton Friedman uses the Manhattan Project and the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program at General Electric to demonstrate how massive technological projects can be kept secret. He notes that the Oak Ridge plant used 5% of U.S. electrical power in total secrecy during the 1940s. Friedman also tracks the rapid progression of nuclear power from the first 10-ton bombs to 57-million-ton fusion devices tested by the Soviet Union.