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originally posted by: Zaphod58
There are programs that have been in operation for 30 years, that don't have a single leak about them, but suddenly they can't keep what is allegedly one of their most top secret programs secret for five minutes?
originally posted by: theultimatebelgianjoke
originally posted by: Deaf Alien
I, myself, and others have witnessed it.
This could be thing I witnessed too years ago ...
That's what CNN seems to suggest.
Abandonment
After numerous problems the project was shut down in March 1953 only to be re-opened a year later. Technological competition with the Soviet Union (as represented by the launch of Sputnik 1), and continued strong support from the Air Force allowed the program to continue, despite divided leadership between the DOD and the AEC. The election of John F. Kennedy as President changed the course. Kennedy wrote "15 years and about $1 billion have been devoted to the attempted development of a nuclear-powered aircraft; but the possibility of achieving a militarily useful aircraft in the foreseeable future is still very remote" in his statement officially ending the ANP on March 26, 1961.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: muzzleflash
Right, because no one knows they're running programs we don't know about and have been for years.
Friedman was employed for 14 years as a nuclear physicist for such companies as General Electric (1956–1959), Aerojet General Nucleonics (1959–1963), General Motors (1963–1966), Westinghouse (1966–1968), TRW Systems (1969–1970), and McDonnell Douglas, where he worked on advanced, classified programs on nuclear aircraft, fission and fusion rockets, and compact nuclear power plants for space applications.[2] Since the 1980s, he has done related consultant work in the radon-detection industry. Friedman's professional affiliations have included the American Nuclear Society, the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and AFTRA.
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