In 1995, I was finishing my assignment at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, the home of the B-2 Stealth Bomber. One of my last duties there was to organize an "Airpower Static Display," for a Russian delegation that was coming with then-SecDef Perry to witness the destruction of a Minuteman II missile silo.
On Friday afternoon, a B-52 and B-1 arrived at Whiteman...Saturday morning, the Russians and Perry arrived, jumped into helicopters and flew off to witness the implosion. As soon as they took off, my team went into action, towing a B-2 out of the hangar, and placing it between the B-1 and B-52, behind a cordon and surrounded with armed guards. An hour or so later, when the helicopters returned, the Russians were jumping out before they even touched the ground, and ran towards the B-2.
I can still remember the look on the guards' faces, and we were able to avoid an international incident, but not before one or two Russians had already climbed halfway into the B-2.
Yes, we (the USA) are stupid when it comes to such matters!
what would the Russians be able to learn from
such an incident?