Radio War Nerd #284 — The XB-70 Valkyrie, Part I (with Annibale) (Patreon)

Guest: Annibale

Recorded: June 18, 2021

RWN's highly decorated guest Annibale joins us for a two-part mondo hardware series on the American XB-70 supersonic bomber, an astonishing feat of mid-century aerospace engineering that was scrapped. In part one, we discuss the background of the XB-70 and prevailing nuclear war strategy of the 1950s and 60s.

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Listen to Annibale's RWN series: Italy's Years Of Lead (#134, #135,#136, #139); Italian Resistance in WW2 (#131); Italy on the Eastern Front in WWII (#226, #227, #228, #231, #236); Venetian Empire (#207, #208, #209, #214); The Hundred Years War (#175, #176, #177, #180, #182, #183), The 1970 Borghese Coup (#264, #265).

Buy John Dolan's book "The War Nerd Iliad" and his audiobook "Pleasant Hell".

Interlude music by Brendon Anderegg. Check out his group Mountains here.

Total time: 1:35:32

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