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...They were not on anyone's radar screen," he says. "It was very secretive. We didn't talk about...
...knife fight, but that's part of the business." The grunts who fly the choppers say they're confident in their aircraft and their mission plan. "Some people have a perception that we are daunted by the threat posed by heat-seeking missiles, small-arms fire, radar systems and things like that," says Captain Mark Arden, with Task Force Hawk in Albania. "But enormous resources are put into this aircraft to defeat just those threats...
Finally, after weeks of effort, the studying, double-checking and vetting in Washington and Europe were finished. Air Force weapons technicians in Missouri loaded the ill-aimed, satellite-guided bombs into the belly of the radar-eluding Stealth bomber. From that point onward, for the first time in the whole process, U.S. technology--and its human masters--worked flawlessly...
...hours, a legion of twisters--more than 40, coming so fast that the exact count is uncertain--scourged the region. One, a behemoth originating near Chickasha, may be historic. Not for the width of its funnel--although at nearly a mile across, that was extraordinary--but a mobile Doppler radar from the University of Oklahoma clocked its peak wind speed at 318 m.p.h., which would make it the strongest wind recorded on Earth...
...conversation between Lee and another Taiwanese-born scientist who was under investigation for passing U.S. neutron-bomb secrets to the Chinese. The FBI then administered a polygraph test on Lee. He passed with flying colors. In the mid-'80s, he and his wife again appeared on the FBI's radar screen, when they approached the Albuquerque field office and volunteered to inform on visiting delegations from the People's Republic and on Chinese scientists in the U.S. The FBI dropped the Lees from its rolls in 1991. But in 1995 the CIA obtained a Chinese document showing that Beijing...