What, Where/When, Who/How, Why

Why

- Air Defense in WWII was a gross failure by all sides

- Typically 95% of the bombers got over target

and 90% came home to fly another day

- With the introduction of the atomic bomb,

one bomber over the target was total disaster

- High speed and altitude of jet bombers made antiaircraft guns

even more useless

- After WWII, Russia got *Big Elbows*

- kept big army and tank force in East Europe

- developed/"borrowed" atomic bomb, TU-4(B-29), BIG jet bomber fleet

- Iron Curtain, Berlin Blockade, Korea, ...

etc.