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About 29 years ago, as an Air Force B-36 bomber flew over New Mexico, a hydrogen bomb weighing 42,000 lbs. somehow got loose, tore away the plane's bomb-bay doors and plunged to earth, landing in the desert about ten miles from Albuquerque. The Mark 17, an estimated ten-megaton monster hundreds of times more powerful than the weapon that leveled Hiroshima, was one of the largest bombs in the U.S. arsenal. It did not set off a nuclear explosion, but it did leave a crater 24 ft. across...
...some 123 B-52s have been equipped with cruise missiles capable of hitting the Soviet Union in a nuclear strike. When the Air Force finishes sticking a pod of the missiles on the 131st bomber, the U.S. will exceed the limits imposed by the 1979 SALT II treaty. Some Air Force officials had initially suggested that the limit would be passed about mid-November, before the two superpower leaders might have picked up where they left off at last year's Geneva summit...
...second Titanic mission was only the latest in a long list of accomplishments. Among the more remarkable of Alvin's 1,716 deep-sea missions: locating and helping to recover (from a depth of 2,850 ft.) an H- bomb that fell into the Mediterranean after a B-52 bomber and a KC-135 tanker collided over Spain in 1966; discovering peculiar new life-forms, including tube worms 10 ft. long, while probing hot-water vents in the ocean floor 8,000 ft. below the surface of the Pacific...
...source of its power. It sums up Rosenquist's vision of America as an Eden compromised by its own violence. The impact of its neon colors and yowling discharge of images has slackened little in 20 years. Like a shark silently threading a reef, the sleek body of the bomber passes through a succession of signs denoting the good life and ways of defending it; a bubble of air from an Aqua-Lung regulator mimics the burst of a nuclear cloud, over which is set an umbrella; the hole in a frosted ring cake suggests a missile silo; a chillingly...
...pilots? Not quite, although the confidently grinning fly-boy is indeed top gun of a sort. John Lehman, 43, is not only a Naval Reserve commander who just completed one of his two regulation training weeks a year, he is also Secretary of the Navy. But as the Reserve bomber-navigator on an A- 6 attack plane at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, Va., Lehman took the right-hand, nonpilot seat on training missions. He also spent time at "deck-plate level," getting a feel for the concerns of ordinary seamen and petty officers. The Secretary acts...