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Authorities in Tucson recently learned that explosives will be detonated in more than two-dozen aircraft beginning this week, but they are not trying to stop the bombings. In this case the Federal Aviation Administration will have a hand in the blasting...
Sorting through the debris of terrorist bombings like that of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 259 passengers, investigators found that while the blast blew a hole in the plane's fuselage, the breakup of the aircraft was caused by cracks that allowed the craft's skin to peel away. The theoretical answer: use materials that prevent cracks from forming, and the plane's structural , integrity will be maintained to allow for a safe landing. The B-52 bombings will help determine how much force will punch a hole in an airliner's skin...
...most endangered weapons systems is the Northrop B-2 Stealth bomber, a radar-evading aircraft that costs $850 million apiece and provided half the company's $4.1 billion of sales during the first nine months last year. The Air Force has already trimmed B-2 orders from 132 planes to 75. According to TIME's sources, White House aides met quietly with Northrop officials last month to discuss a possible halt to the project, which employs 13,000 in the Los Angeles area, once work is completed on the 16 B-2s now in production...
...Defense. Clinton would chop $100 billion out of the military budget over the next five years, on top of the $100 billion Bush already proposes to cut. Some suggestions: cancel the B-2 bomber and the SDI antimissile program, cut another two Army divisions and two aircraft-carrier battle groups, in addition to the reductions Bush has suggested...
...habits die hard. Military experts in the former Soviet Union were mighty uncomfortable last week about the prospect of sharing their most important secrets with the team of U.S. technicians arriving to help dismantle their nukes. Meanwhile, American officials are concerned that unemployed experts in nuclear weaponry, aircraft design and other military technology may be tempted to hire out their skills. Washington has no intention of drafting all that talent but has drawn up a list of those the U.S. would like to see stay put. Part of the $400 million appropriated by Congress for nuclear-disarmament assistance...