BOOKS

B-36: SAVING THE LAST PEACEMAKER

A pictorial history of the last Convair B-36 Peacemaker
intercontinental nuclear bomber
On CD-ROM

THIRD EDITION
REVISED 2006

On CD-ROM

The National Museum of the United States Air Force has transferred the loan of the Last B-36 to PIMA Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona, permitting the final chapter of this story to be told.

Much has happened concerning this aircraft since edition two was released and we have chronicled all those details.  Many new photographs are included as are more first-person accounts of key events throughout the bomber's history.   One new sound clip and eight video clips are included in this latest edition.  We are sure you will appreciate the attention to detail and accuracy in this third edition.

Extensive footnotes are provided to document sources of information used in the book making this an authoritative source of information for B-36 fans, aviation researchers, historians and modelers.

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COLD WAR PEACEMAKER

The Story of Cowtown and Convair's B-36 Peacemaker
From Specialty Press

By Don Pyeatt and Dennis R. Jenkins
January 2010

After collaborating on previous studies of Convair's B-36, authors Don Pyeatt and Dennis R. Jenkins have combined their unique knowledge of the B-36 and the era in which it served into this book of political intrigue and technological marvels. Jenkins, an aerospace engineer and author of several dozen aircraft histories, and Pyeatt, historian for the B-36 Peacemaker Museum and the 7th Bomb Wing B-36 Association, have teamed to reveal the world of the B-36 as it really was. Whether your interest is in technical details of the world’s first intercontinental nuclear bomber, or in the political and social events leading to its development and Strategic Air Command deployment during the Cold War, this book tells it all. Combined with many seldom-seen photos from private collections and national archives, this book presents a new perspective on the Cold War's premiere nuclear deterrent.  240 pages, 350 photographs, 75,000 words. ISBN 1580071279.

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NEW PRODUCTS COMING SOON

COLD WAR PROPAGANDA FILMS ON DVD VIDEO DISK
 

At the onset of the Cold War, the United States military was essentially dismantled and its war machines had been scrapped.  The U.S. had a small stockpile of nuclear weapons but had no effective means of delivering them to targets inside the Soviet Union.  The Convair B-36 long-range bomber was still in development and was experiencing major problems as the first models entered service in 1948.  Through a clever program of subterfuge, misinformation and deception, the B-36 was publicly portrayed as possessing amazing capabilities and as being deployed in great numbers against a growing Soviet threat.  The U.S. government created several propaganda films that were distributed to movie theaters - knowing that Soviet spies would view them and report their contents to the Kremlin.  We have obtained a few of these movies and are currently converting the original films to digital video.  TARGET: PEACE  and SIZE 36 will be available soon.  Also to be available will be HOT FLIGHT, the story of the quest for nuclear propulsion of aircraft.  Additionally, a superb 1938 movie of the history of aviation will also be available here.

LARGE FORMAT PHOTOGRAPHS
 

Our extensive collection of vintage B-36 era photographs will soon be available as frame-ready prints up to 13" x 19".  Even larger prints can be produced by special order.