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2. The Hunt For Zero Point is also an investigation of the Pentagon's 'black world' of defence procurement. Every year, the US spends around $20-30 billion (the equivalent of the entire UK defence budget) on technologies so secret they do not officially exist (as far as the public, media and most of the US Congress are concerned). As Aviation Editor of JDW, I've got about as close as you can get as an observer to this activity, which encompasses 'leap-ahead' technologies such as stealth, nuclear programmes, spy satellites and directed energy weapons. The question I needed to answer was whether anti-gravity technology had been hidden away in this Pandora's Box of doomsday science. The black world is a bizarre place - it is very much a 'system', huge and sprawling, only with walls and compartments you can't see - and you need to keep your feet on the ground when you enter the labyrinth. In visiting top-secret locations like the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works (in the California high-desert) and interviewing black world Pentagon generals, I come to realise that the US military contains traces of activity in the anti-gravity field, but, in effect, it has more to lose than gain from pursuing it. The origins of anti-gravity science, however, are real and buried in a top-secret, undisclosed high-level weapons programme, run by the SS in Nazi Germany in World War 2.

3. Strand 3 is an investigation of the top secret research and weapons programme run by the SS (without the knowledge of Hitler's inner 'cabinet') in the last two years of the war. The man in charge of this programme was SS General Dr Hans Kammler, who ran a network of facilities in modern-day Poland, Czech Republic, Germany and Austria, devoted to a wealth of exotic weapons technology. At the end of the war, having told a number of close confidants (among them, Albert Speer, Nazi Germany's armaments minister) that he was negotiating his surrender with the Americans, Kammler disappeared - as well he might. Before administering the weapons programme, he was the architect of Hitler's death camps. In this portion of the book, The Hunt For Zero Point is given over to the search for Kammler and an examination of the technologies he controlled - weapons science that even today lies on the very edge of our understanding, so different was the 'culture' under which it came together. In the book, it becomes clear that anti-gravity technology was definitively a part of this culture and that the Germans developed hardware. The book contains details on two Kammler-controlled programmes and visits to the facilities where they came together. The question is, of course, whether the Americans, in their dogged pursuit of Nazi scientists at the end of the Second World War, recovered the physics, technology and expertise associated with this research - and, more to the point, developed it further. The assembled evidence in The Hunt For Zero Point speaks for itself.