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...atom bombs of World War II were bulky monsters weighing close to five tons. The B295 that atom-bombed Japan carried only one on each mission. But atom bombs have been getting smaller and handier. The Army's description last week of its atomic gun gives an idea of how small a modern atom bomb...
Meteor Measuring. B295 cannot fly above the effective top of the atmosphere, and rockets, so far, have not stayed up long enough to be thoroughly bombarded by free-striking cosmic rays. But meteors have been cruising through space without atmospheric protection for millions, perhaps billions, of years. If examined soon after they hit the earth, they should show the worst that cosmic rays...
China-based B295 did their best job of precision bombing on an aircraft factory at Okayama, Formosa. Lanky, blond Brigadier General Lauris Norstad, Twentieth Air Force Chief of Staff, judged this job better than any he had seen in Europe: 35 or 36 buildings that comprised this factory "just aren't there any more...