Re. Dark Side of the Moon

[John Carvill]

<< Biddle, Wayne.  Dark Side of the Moon:
   Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race.
   New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2009.

A stunning investigation of the roots of the first moon landing forty years=
 ago.

This illuminating story of the dawn of the space age reaches back to
the reactionary modernism of the Third Reich, using the life of
=E2=80=9Crocket scientist=E2=80=9D Wernher von Braun as its narrative path =
through the
crumbling of Weimar Germany and the rise of the Nazi regime. Von
Braun, a blinkered opportunist who could apply only tunnel vision to
his meteoric career, stands as an archetype of myriad twentieth
century technologists who thrived under regimes of military secrecy
and unlimited money.....>>

Sort of what I was getting at here:

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0911&msg=144138&sort=date