Hmmm, is the reporter headed somewhere with this?
But to others, he is little short of a villain: the man who 50 years ago dropped a nuclear bomb in US waters, a bomb nobody has been able to find and make safe.
Which others? Who? I've read about this story for 20 years and never once heard anyone castigate him personnally.
...the nuclear weapon he might one day be instructed to drop to start World War III.
A U.S. first strike on the USSR, to be started by this Major and his trusty B-47. This reporter seems to have gotten some real secret info.
But his case has been vigorously contested by opponents who raise apocalyptic fears of a thermonuclear explosion which could destroy much of the US eastern seaboard.
A thermonuclear explosion that could destry much of the eastern seaboard????? Not even a 1000 megaton bomb could do that.
Dunno, it is the BBC.
All to protect his precious bodily fluids.
Why, the others who wanted him to crash land on the runway (or worse. in a populated area) with the bomb in the belly of the plane, have the explosives cook off, and distribute the fissionable material all over the crash site. Those others. :)