ICBM war from 1946 by Willy Ley

Another Modern Mechanix goodie:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/...peace-or-else/
Apparently the ICBMs are television controlled and require wearing Buck
Rogers headgear to operate.
The things that look like torpedoes with annular wings around them in
the painting are based on the VB-10,11,12 "Roc" series guided bombs:
http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app1/vb.html
Also the destructive effects of the "1-ton atomic bomb" shown with the
blast map of NYC seem pretty optimistic for the time.
Note that the article states that "British sources" state that the
atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki weighed "about 400 pounds".
British sources were slightly off in their weight estimates... Little
Boy weighed 8,900 pounds; Fat Man 10,300 pounds.
I used to have the issue of the magazine this was in; the red ink just/
made/ the article. :-)
IIRC, there is also a article about secret Luftwaffe warplane designs in
the same issue... those are done with red ink also.

Pat