Edit pageAdd to list Track The letter was chillingly blunt. "Mr. Chairman, following a mid-air collision, a.B-47 aircraft jettisoned one nuclear bomb. Into the water near the mouth, of the Savannah River." Emergencies in a nuclear bomber are quite different from ...See more ...
Buzz One Fouris a documentary film byMatt McCormickthat chronicles the ill fated flight of a Cold War B-52 bomber loaded with two thermonuclear bombs that crashed 90 miles from Washington DC. The crash has remained classified and details continue to be repressed by the Air Force, but it is ...
and it's nuclear. The government's worst nightmare is that we'll find it and expose the truth - that they're putting people at risk. We've got to find that bomb.”
"Look, Johann," Dang said to me, "this is the only person, with her kids, who survived nine years of American bombs in her village.I am going to listen to her health advice over yours." He dragged me into his car, andIheavedandconvulsedall the way to asparsebuilding that I learned...
After the success of the first chain reaction, Szilard’s thoughts began to turn to the problem of the eventual use of atomic bombs and the danger of a postwar nuclear arms race. In the spring of 1945 he unsuccessfully sought personal meetings with President Roosevelt, and then after Roosevelt...
After coming of age running drills to prepare for Soviet nuclear attacks, these teenagers and twenty-somethings now faced the terror of war in Vietnam. New Castle seemed hit particularly hard by the draft. Every day, the newspaper ran columns devoted to listing the names of young men who ...
I felt a bitter, chemical taste fill my mouth. It was the flavor I imagined, back when I was a kid, that all food was going to have after a nuclear war. I knew I should stop, but I was too tired to go out for any other food, so I ate half, and then set it aside,repelled...