POSTSCRIPT TO: THAT BOMB
_ With the recovery. of that H-bomb, dropped over Spain. last January along with three other H-bombs. when.a B-52 collided with a: tanker plane during ‘refueling, the world breathed easier. Safe again! Oras Admiral Guest, one of the "bulldog" type, put it in a phrase | i to echo down the: halls. of time: "Thank God, we finally id it! ” .
“ Blatealy swinging: from hooks to drums, the New York Times crowed editorially [April 9]:
. "It was also an event of. political importance. It permitted the population of a whole corner of Spain to breathe more easily, got the United States off a most uncomfortable hook, and deprived the Soviet Union of a propaganda drum on which it had hoped to pound away indefinitely.’ 7 Many people will, no- ‘doubt now feel inclined. once more to take. a complacent’ attitude toward the H-bomb patrols which the White. House keeps in the air-on a world-wide: scale twenty-four hours of the day. . An: accident: like: the one. in:Spain.is really rare. Small chance it will .be repeated. For study. by such easy-going souls, we offer the. following paragraph, part: of an: article about the search for. the lost H-bomb which: appeared: in. the April os) issue of, the London Observer:
"The - ‘Pentagon has lost H-bombs. before; one. is still missing. in “the soft earth of North Carolina. But the Palomares bomb is the first to be so publicly missing." | -
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