I'll defer to the list expert, but I suspect what you were seeing was footage of smaller bombs being dropped from racks within the bomb bays, not nukes.
Dan who would not care to be intimate with any thermonuclear device On Sep 8, 2013, at 8:50 PM, Mountain Man wrote: > Wilton wrote: >> I knew all of the intimate details of the nuclear weapons and/or >> conventional weapons (as appropriate) in our huge bomb bay and how to use >> them... > > 25 years ago I remember taking the kids to Peterson AFB in Colorado > Springs at one of their open house days. We were allowed to walk > right up under a B-52, if I recall correctly. I recall being amazed > at how small the bomb carrying compartment in the middle of the > airplane seemed. I had in mind seeing war footage that showed bombs > dropping from B-52 and that compartment did not seem capable of > carrying that many bombs. I guess you also carried bombs under the > wings? I just recall being amazed that we would fly that huge > airplane for hours, refuel, spend a few minutes dropping bombs at Nam, > and then fly hours back to be re-armed. I was no peacenik, but... it > seemed like a lot of effort to spend hours traveling to spend minutes > dropping bombs. That was my impression. These days? - I tire of war > efforts, again, not being much a peacenik, just tired of the seeming > futility of the jazz that goes in to seeming peace keeping efforts. > So... call me peacenik... whatever. > mao > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
