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Over the coast that morning in 1966 a U.S. B-52 bomber on a routine nuclear patrol collided with the Strategic Air Command KC-135 tanker that was refueling it. Wreckage rained on Palomares, including three unarmed hydrogen bombs. A fourth bomb fell into the sea. There were no deaths or serious injuries among the villagers, but a U S. airman mumbled in schoolboy Spanish after parachuting to safety: "Ustedes todos muertos [You're all dead]." Because two bombs' casings had cracked, several thousand airmen and sailors spent 44 days carrying away almost six acres of topsoil...
...Most fats that remain solid at room temperature are derived from land animals and classed by chemists as "saturated" because they have hydrogen atoms attached at all available points in their carbon chains. Some vegetable fats have one such point with two fewer hydrogen atoms and are "monounsaturated." Many vegetable and seed oils, and all fats from fish and marine mammals, lack the full complement of hydrogen atoms at two or more points and are "polyunsaturated." These fats are liquid at room temperature...
...high on tobacco and each other, enjoy an apres-ski spree. How can such a splice-up of burnt-out cliches sell cigarettes? That's the point. The voiceover during the 60-second spot has been saying right along: "Cigarette smoke contains some interesting elements: carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, benzopyrene, hydrogen cyanide. Cigarette smoke has been related to increased rates of lung cancer, coronary heart disease, peptic ulcers and emphysema...
France's first hydrogen bomb explod ed last week over the Fangataufa atoll in the South Pacific, forming a huge ex clamation mark to punctuate the dif ficulties of nonproliferation...
exploded its first H-bomb in 1952, the Soviet Union in 1953, the British in 1957, and the Chinese in 1967. Though it has become the fifth member of the hydrogen club, France is at least four years away from having a missile system capable of giving its big new bang the proper ride. Still, despite his recent troubles at home, Charles de Gaulle is determined to press ahead with his nuclear-weapon development program as the premier proof of his restoration of la gloire to France...