BILL,
     In a message dated 10-16-97 you wrote ...
> An article in the local newspaper back in January made mention of
> American bomber crews exploding nuclear weapons over Canandian territory
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> on two different occassions.  Ever hear of those?
     I will butt in here because I flew many of the early missions
 carrying Nuclear weapons over Canada.  None were ever lost or
 dropped on any mission there.  We flew a 24 hour airborne alert
 system code nammed "Chrome Dome" which yo-yo-ed North and south
 over Canada.
     In fact one of the first missions got lost and had to be escorted
 back by CF-100s... Later missions went around all of North America.
 One B-52 lost four Mark 28s of the runway at Thule Air Base but NO
 EXPLOSION.    One lost four off Spain which was an extremely hard
 recovery.  None had even a High Explosive detonation. Even with
 a high explosive detonation, you can not have a nuclear detonation
 by accident.... All I can say as this is unclassified information
 available to all.
     I flew more than 50 of these missions and was airborne the
 day Kennedy laid down the law to Krushev on the Cuban missiles.
 We had 1250 B-47s, 650 B-52s with over 80 of them airborne and
 our missiles...
     I have seen lots of your country from the air on these
 missions......
   -=*  Jim Sanders  *=-
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