The Pentagon has few weapons as iconic and fearsome — not to mention as old — as the B-52 Stratofortress. Now the U.S. Air Force plans to send the bombers to strike the Islamic State.
North Korea sets off a nuclear bomb and how does the U.S. respond? The Pentagon sends a half-century-old airplane to buzz Korean airspace.
by JOSEPH TREVITHICK
On March 14, 1961, Lt. Col. Schuyler, the chief of the Joint Nuclear Accident Coordination Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico received a troubling phone call.
Originally published on June 1, 2015.
by DAVID AXE