BEHIND THE SCENES Bonds & Bombs
¶The Air Force leaked the news that a plane carrying an atomic bomb had crashed without setting off a nuclear explosion. Plan behind the leak: to ease British uneasiness about SAC bombers operating over the British Isles. Behind the news is the story of how U.S. scientists have worked for years to build accident-proofing devices into Atomic Age bombs so that they cannot be accidentally set off in a crashor even by blasts of high explosives. Proof of the scientists' success is the fact that not one but at least...
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