The
Amerika-Bomber project was an initiative of the German
Reichsluftfahrtministerium to obtain a long-range
strategic bomber for the
Luftwaffe that would be capable of striking the
contiguous United States from
Germany, a distance of about . The concept was raised as early as 1938, but advanced, cogent plans for such a long-range strategic bomber design did not begin to appear in
Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring's offices until early 1942. Various proposals were put forward, including using it to deliver an
atomic bomb (
which Germany ultimately never developed), but they were all eventually abandoned as too expensive, and potentially consuming far too much of Germany's rapidly diminishing aviation production capacity after 1942.