Title: Wild blue yonder :
Authors: Kotz, Nick.
Date: 1988
Publisher: Pantheon Books,
Physical description: ix, 313 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: U
Contents: But will it fly? -- The best bases politics can buy -- Dwight Eisenhower and the politics of fear -- Curtis Le May and strategic air power -- Dutch Kindelberger and the new defense politics -- Politics and the missile gap -- The whiz kids and the bomber generals -- Vietnam and the test of air power -- The greening of California -- The goldplated bomber -- Who's on who? -- Jimmy Carter and the anti-B-1 coalition -- The politics of a nuclear engineer -- The secret war to save the B-1 -- The Democratic bomber and the Republican bomber -- But does it fly well enough? -- Out of control.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Rockwell B-1 (Bomber); United States. Air Force--Procurement.