Project Brass Ring was a 1950United States Air Force project designed to deliver an earlyhydrogen bomb to within 2 miles (3.2 km) of a target using a drone version of theB-47 Stratojet, which would be guided by amother ship and destroyed in the detonation.^[1] This project was given considerable support, due to uncertainty concerning the possible yield of a hydrogen bomb, then estimated to lie between 10 and 40megatons. Brass Ring was meant to provide an interimnuclear weapons delivery capability while more capable (and less costly) systems were under development. The fear and concern surrounding theSoviet Union's development of its own nuclear weapons capability was the impetus to quickly begin the project. Project Brass Ring was similar in concept to the World War IIOperation Aphrodite.^[2]

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