This Nazi Aircraft Designed For Bombing New York Was Also A Space Shuttle During World War II, the Nazis were incredibly adept at creating uber-secret weapons. Some worked, others didn't. Thankfully, a few never got off the design page and into the final creation stage. If they had, we might all live in an alternate world. The "Silbervogel" (German for "silver bird") is precisely one of those weapons. Germany's then-Air Force chief Hermann Goering said that his military didn't have a bomber capable of dropping 4.5 tons of bombs on New York, a move that "would at last stuff the...