The Race for the Bomb: A Focus Series

The Race for the Bomb: A Focus Series

History & Legends

An Afterburner focus series in ten parts, inspired by Richard Rhodes’ masterpiece The Making of the Atomic Bomb. It is the biggest story of the twentieth century, and it is also, from start to finish, an aviation story. It begins with a refugee physicist at a...
A Cheesesteak, a MiG-21, and Mach 1

A Cheesesteak, a MiG-21, and Mach 1

Inside MiGFlug, News

Somewhere over the Florida coast, at better than a thousand miles an hour, a man in an oxygen helmet unwrapped a cheesesteak, took a bite, and pulled a face you don’t usually see outside a rollercoaster. That, apparently, is what it now takes to sell a sandwich....