FROM RUSSIA WITH…?

EHIND THE GLITTERING FAÇADE of the Grand Alliance—the World War II-era union between the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom—lurked a complex web of international friction, misunderstanding, ideological incompatibility, and suspicion. Relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union were particularly fraught. Despite this inhospitable diplomatic climate, American air planners still managed to develop a 1944-45 program that would shuttle long-range bombers