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The Drones of the Atomic Age

February 1, 2016 February 5, 2016  Dan Gettinger, Nuclear Weapons, US Military

By Dan Gettinger Eight minutes after the detonation of Gilda at Bikini Atoll on July 1, 1946, a fleet of U.S. B-17 Flying Fortresses and F6F Hellcat fighters approached the rising mushroom cloud. The first B-17 entered the cloud at 24,000 feet and, minutes later, three more B-17s and three Hellcats …

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