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...radio exchange would have been ludicrous had it not taken place between two members of an Air Force team searching frantically for a nine-megaton warhead, 450 times the yield of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The warhead was blown from the Titan II missile that exploded into flames near Damascus, Ark., two weeks ago. Despite pleas by nearby residents for reassurance that there was no danger of toxic fumes or radiation, the Air Force was determined to keep secret for a time the embarrassing fact that the warhead had been lost and then found a short time later...
...Services Committee, urged that the U.S. "seriously explore" alternatives to the Titans. But Pentagon officials maintain that the U.S. cannot afford to do so. Although the Titans are not as accurate as the country's main land-based nuclear missiles, the 1,000 solid-fuel Minutemen, a Titan warhead is about 54 times as big as one of the three warheads on a Minuteman III. Titans make up one-third of the land-based U.S. megatonnage...
Officials reported that no radiation leaked from the missile, which was tipped with a multimegaton nuclear warhead. But the explosion was the second accident of the week involving U.S. nuclear weapons; the first was a fire at Grand Forks Air Force Base, N. Dak., that damaged a B-52 bomber thought to be carrying 32 shortrange, nuclear missiles...
...vigorously in 1976 to trim the Pentagon budget, and early in his Administration boasted of cutting some $7 billion from the defense spending urged by Ford in his last year in office. As Reagan charges, Carter canceled such key weapons programs as the B-l bomber and the neutron warhead. In rebuttal, Carter claims that the B-l was obsolete and that his Administration is considering developing a more effective manned bomber...
...last month that France had tested its own Enhanced Radiation Weapon (ERW), commonly known as the neutron bomb. Military experts point out that the neutron bomb is not a bomb at all, since it is not designed to be dropped from a plane. It is actually a "clean" nuclear warhead, small enough to fit onto a missile or even into a 155-mm howitzer. A modified hydrogen bomb, the ERW produces minimal heat and blast and virtually no residual radiation and fallout (see chart...