Korea and the A-Bomb – How close did we come to using it?
Under the cover of the warm late-evening darkness of August 5, 1950, 10 specially modified B-29s from the Strategic Air Command’s 9th Bombardment Group were lined up nose to tail at the head of the main parallel runways at Northern California’s Fairfield-Suisun Airfield, not far from the state capitol in Sacramento. Their running lights and ghostly tails looked little different in the black of night from the MATS C-97s then busily shuttling troops to the...
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