The Nazi Antipodal Bomber
Amy Shira Teitel, who write the Vintage Space blog over at Posci, covers the elusive Eugen Sänger in her latest stab. Sänger was the uber-scary real life rocket genius (and member of the Nazi party and SS going back to 1933) who pitched his weaponized skip-glide vehicle first to his native Austrians, then to the Germans. This advanced rocket would have been able to bomb any city on earth within an hour after takeoff. A raid from Germany to New York, landing in Japan, was on the table at one point…