http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/11/arsof_nuclear.html Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Thu, 24 May 2012 10:04:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/11/arsof_nuclear.html/comment-page-1#comment-2167 David Wood Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:03:30 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/?p=2063#comment-2167 Flying with one eye -- either because of a patch or because one eye has been blinded by a nuclear detonation -- means you have no depth perception and cannot land your aircraft. That's what an F-16 pilot told me in Germany in the 1980s. His mission was to fly into East Germany, drop his nuke, fly back, rearm and fly again. Ini fact, he said, his was a one-way mission. It struck me at the time that most U.S. plans for nuclear war in Europe were of similar fairy-tale material. Flying with one eye — either because of a patch or because one eye has been blinded by a nuclear detonation — means you have no depth perception and cannot land your aircraft. That’s what an F-16 pilot told me in Germany in the 1980s. His mission was to fly into East Germany, drop his nuke, fly back, rearm and fly again. Ini fact, he said, his was a one-way mission. It struck me at the time that most U.S. plans for nuclear war in Europe were of similar fairy-tale material.

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