A Visionary Ahead of His Time: Howard Hughes and the U.S. Air Force--Part III: the Falcon Missile and Airborne Fire Control‪.‬

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] No military R&D effort received a higher priority in the postwar years than that to defend the continent against a nuclear air strike. No military weapons systems called for greater advances of technology. No group of scientists and engineers received stronger support of their efforts by the US. government. Yet the key organization involved was neither a branch of the government nor a publicly held corporation. It was the property of one man ...