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...Viet Nam would be "sheer lunacy." Red China's Premier Chou En-lai promised North Viet Nam nuclear weapons if the U.S. uses them. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent a formal query to Secretary of State Dean Rusk asking if there was any truth to the nuke talk...
Soon after the January 17 collision between a nuke-carrying B-52 and its KC-135 tanker over Spain, a desperate Defense Department turned for help to the Sandia Laboratory in Albuquerque, which conducts bomb-electronics research for the AEC. Sandia scientists promptly requested all available accident data from the task force. With other experts, they pored over interviews with surviving B-52 crew members and witnesses on the ground; they studied Air Force wind-velocity records and the ballistic characteristics and impact points of the three recovered H-bombs. By feeding complex equations into computers, they projected trajectories backward...
...Navy's 18-ship, 2,200-man recovery task force under "Wild Bill" Guest, 52. Among the most sophisticated hardware in his far-out fleet were the civilian-manned, deep-diving research subs Aluminaut and Alvin. It was Alvin's two crewmen who first found the wayward nuke last month, wrapped in its grey parachute 2,500 ft. down on a 70° slope. But Alvin proved a ham-handed retriever. On its first try at getting a line around the bomb, the sub booted the bomb 20 ft. down the slope toward a 3,000-ft. chasm...
Sober Striptease. Not surprisingly, the U.S. was eager to show off the nuke, to prove at least that the Costa Bomba, as it was being called, was demonstrably safe for tourists-in addition to rebutting in advance any murkey insinuations from Moscow that the recovery operation was all a big hoax...
...Navy worked to recover the nuke, the shore side of the massive search was also drawing to a close. The Air Force, which recovered the three H-bombs that fell on land, had finished scraping 1,500 cu. yds. of contaminated topsoil into steel drums, was preparing to ship them aboard an American freighter to the U.S. for burial in the Aiken, S.C., nuclear-disposal plot. To celebrate an unpleasant job well done, the Air Force brought in a band that tootled prettily as airmen began striking their tent city near Palomares...