Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-303) and index. Includes index.

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.