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Smith gave a striking illustration of the atomic-thermonuclear revolution in firepower. If a one-inch cube were considered the equivalent of one ton of TNT. the average bomber load in World War II would stand four inches high; the Nagasaki-Hiroshima atomic bomb would be a 1,666-ft. column, more than three times the height of the Washington monument; the "conventional" atomic bomb of today would tower 4,998 ft. high; and the power of the thermonuclear superbomb, similarly expressed, would be represented by a column soaring 63 miles into...
PRATT & Whitney's J57 jet, most powerful engine in production, will go into two more U.S. military planes. The engine, already slated to power three new Air Force fighters and the B-52 bomber, will also be used in the Navy's Douglas F4D "Skyray" fighter and Douglas A3D twin-engined light bomber...
...made into the free world's South Asian bastion. ¶ Pakistan's 13-division army, re-equipped, could hold the Khyber Pass. ¶ From Pakistan's air bases, particularly the two great British-built airfields near Karachi, the U.S. Air Force would be within jet-bomber range of the Karaganda-Alma Ata refuge of Soviet industry, far beyond the Ural Mountains. ¶ A pact between the U.S. and Pakistan might spur other Moslem nations to join the long-stalled Middle East Defense Organization, and might even serve as its nucleus...
...watch bearing the two-headed eagle of Imperial Russia. Igor was 24, one of the world's leading'aircraft designers and a famous man. In a few years he was worth half a million dollars. During World War I he shuttled tirelessly between his factory, which built four-engine bombers, and the front, at times taking cover from showers of steel arrows which German bomber pilots dumped on Russian airdromes. Then came the Revolution. Sikorsky left Russia with one suitcase and a thin sheaf of English pound notes...
...instructions which I have received in regard to bacteriological warfare consisted of two lectures. One lecture was given at Luke Air Force Base, which is in the United States at Phoenix, Arizona, on December ist, 1951 . . . The second lecture was at K-46, the base of the 18th Fighter Bomber group in Korea here. This lecture was given on the 22nd of January...