These Cold War-era planes were meant to deliver atomic bombs just like the American B-52.
Key point: The RAF invested heavily in these platforms and used them in the 1950s and 1960s. Here is their story.
During World War II, the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) Bomber Command deployed huge strategic bombers on a massive scale to bombard German cities at night. Postwar, the RAF sought to evolve its bomber fleet to the jet
and nuclear age.
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrated that a single nuclear weapon could inflict more destruction than a hundred conventional bombers and postwar London feared (incorrectly, as it turned out) that the United States and its nuclear umbrella would withdraw from Europe.
travel is not advised. the upper midwest is really really wicked. we re going to start out by showing you pictures of what s going on in minneapolis/st. paul. this is a picture from kara levin. the windchill index only 4 right now. winds gusting at 33 miles per hour, visibility about a tenth of a mile. we re very near blizzard conditions here. ed snow s going to taper off by tomorrow. but the high, 5, feeling like 20 to 30 degrees below zero. des moines is no better for you. let s show you towercam in that area, where there s a blizzard warning in effect. your snow s going to be less here in des moines, maybe 5 to 8 inches, we can see gusts 50 to 0 miles an hour. we re concerned about travel, but we could have power request outages and plummeting temperatures to go along with that. that s a major concern. here s some of the snowfall totals we ve seen so far. as of last night, more than a foot in shakopee, minnesota.
the government isn t going to save you from these ingredients. scientists lots of food we eat is filled with chemicals outlawed in other countries. shepard: we begin this friday night with breaking news federal prosecutors have now charged ed snow den with espionage. ed snow den is the former national security agency contractor who leaked documents about top secret surveillance programs. he is also facing charges of theft and conversion of government property. the leak sparked national and international debates about the secret powers of the nsa to infringe on the privacy of both americans and foreigners. our chief judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano is on the line with us now. judge, does this come as a surprise to you? no. it doesn t come as a surprise at all, shep. in fact, it s necessary for the government in order to start extradition wherever he is. he may still be in hong kong or he may be in another country to have a criminal charges filed.