Fischer-Tropsch
An excellent name for a cocktail, since after three you couldn't pronounce it without getting 86ed for spitting on the bartender.
Piet and Raithel say that the whole Seaplane Striking Force concept - which included the SeaMaster, the F2Y Sea Dart for air defense and the R3Y Tradewind for logistics - started after the Truman administration canceled the USS United States, the first supercarrier. The Navy was worried (as was the Army) that they would suddenly become irrelevant if all war was to be nuclear.
The P6M's primary role was minelaying but it was also tested with nuclear bomb shapes. It was a difficult and (for the 1950s) long development program - the P6M-1 was far from operationally suitable and the P6M-2 was different in many ways and only just emerging from development when the project was shopped.
It's near the top of the "damn, why did the bu99ers have to scrap all of them?" list.