Synopsis

In warfare, the decisive advantage lies in the power to strike an enemy before they realize they are under attack. Among America's military assets, one aircraft embodies this principle: the B-2 Stealth Bomber. Capable of deploying 40,000 pounds of conventional or nuclear ordnance and vanishing without a trace, its lineage can be traced back to single-wing experiments in Germany during the nineteen thirties. The B-2’s development proceeded under conditions of intense secrecy, but when that veil w