Area 51_ An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base - Annie Jacobsen [262]
A Predator drone on the tarmac at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, June 2008. Located just thirty miles south of Area 51, the airstrip here was formerly called Indian Springs. It is where atomic sampling pilots once trained to fly through mushroom clouds; where Dr. Edward Teller, “father of the H-bomb,” used to land before atomic bomb tests; and where Bob Lazar says he was taken and interrogated after getting caught trespassing on Groom Lake Road. (U.S. Air Force/Steve Huckvale)
From Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, U.S. Air Force pilots fly drones over Iraq and Afghanistan using remote control. (U.S. Air Force/author collection)
Site of former EG&G offices on the edge of downtown Las Vegas as it looked in 2009. (Author collection)
Operation Harass and the search for the Horten brothers netted this sketch of a possible advanced Horten aircraft design. (Department of Defense)
Walter Horten holding a scale model of the Horten 10B in Baden-Baden, Germany, in 1987. (Collection of David Myhra)
Reimar Horten in Argentina, 1985. (Collection of David Myhra)
The Operation Crossroads 1946 commemorative yearbook depicts the Ros-well Army Air Base as the military facility from which the opening shot in the Cold War was fired. (Collection of Richard S. Leghorn/Army Air Forces)
Contents
Front Cover Image
Welcome
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue: The Secret City
Chapter 1 The Riddle of Area 51
Chapter 2 Imagine a War of the Worlds
Chapter 3 The Secret Base
Chapter 4 The Seeds of a Conspiracy
Chapter 5 The Need-to-Know
Chapter 6 Atomic Accidents
Chapter 7 From Ghost Town to Boomtown
Chapter 8 Cat and Mouse Becomes Downfall
Chapter 9 The Base Builds Back Up
Chapter 10 Wizards of Science, Technology, and Diplomacy
Chapter 11 What Airplane?
Chapter 12 Covering Up the Cover-Up
Chapter 13 Dull, Dirty, and Dangerous Requires Drones
Chapter 14 Drama in the Desert
Chapter 15 The Ultimate Boys’ Club
Chapter 16 Operation Black Shield and the Secret History of the USS Pueblo
Chapter 17 The MiGs of Area 51
Chapter 18 Meltdown
Chapter 19 The Lunar-Landing Conspiracy and Other Legends of Area 51
Chapter 20 From Camera Bays to Weapons Bays, the Air Force Takes Control
Chapter 21 Revelation
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Author Interviews and Bibliography
Books and Monographs
Photo Inserts
About the Author
Copyright
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Annie Jacobsen is a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine and an investigative reporter whose work has also appeared in the National Review and the Dallas Morning News. Her two-part series “The Road to Area 51” in the Los Angeles Times Magazine was widely read. A graduate of Princeton University, Annie Jacobsen lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.
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Copyright © 2011 by Anne M. Jacobsen
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ISBN: 978-0-316-19385-6