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General Power had inflamed public opinion by telling a British journalist, who’d asked whether American aircraft routinely flew with nuclear weapons above England, “Well, we did not build these bombers to carry crushed rose petals.”
Robert Gustavo
There were other bombers designed to carry crushed rose petals, but that was only because there was a nerve agent made from rose petals.
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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