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The problem is that while the aircraft certainly could have delivered the bombs to their intended targets, the pilots probably couldn’t make it back alive. The Warthog’s slow speed, so valuable when supporting troops on the ground, could have easily turned the entire affair into a suicide mission.
While the exact specifics are classified, a B-61 bomb can likely create a fireball almost a mile wide, according to data from nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein’s Nukemap Website.
The approximate radius of the air blast from the weapon going off—where “most residential buildings collapse, injuries are universal [and] fatalities are widespread”—would extend more than three miles from ground zero, Wellerstein’s site adds.
Fast-moving fighter jets would have trouble escaping the aftermath of these massive explosions. On a nuclear mission, the Air Force expected its fighter pilots to fly toward their targets at altitudes greater than 30,000 feet before lobbing bombs at the enemy.
With the bombs flying in an upward arc onto the target, the method would hopefully give the aircraft enough time to fly clear of the blast. But it’d still be a close call. The slower A-10s probably wouldn’t make it.
The A-10 pilots would have had to hope for the best. But weapons fitted with a timed fuze might have bought just enough time for the Warthogs to get away from the impact site.
“Here’s one possibility … a last-ditch mission profile intended to blunt a Warsaw Pact breakthrough along the German border,” the Air Force officer suggests as one reason for sending the Warthogs on a nuclear mission.
The consensus appears to be that lobbing nuclear bombs is one thing the venerable Warthogs can’t—and shouldn’t—do.
Millions of dollars worth of parts and appliances are stripped every year from Chicago Housing Authority buildings by thieves who sell them to scrap yards and second-hand shops, according to CHA authorities.
Aluminum windows and brass nozzles from fire hoses are easy targets for street thugs and drug addicts on the prowl for a quick dollar. But the larger caches, which sometimes include refrigerators and stoves, are hoarded by CHA employees in agency storage rooms and then hauled away by the truckload, CHA officials charge...
Officials also suspect ripoff schemes orchestrated by contractors-working in conjunction with CHA employees-who charge for parts, then steal them or simply fail to make the delivery.
''I think that the substantial thefts are not committed casually by people off the streets,'' said Christian Maerz, who, as the authority`s new inspector general, has been put in charge of weeding out internal theft and fraud.
For years, ''casual'' thieves have torn through concrete floors for copper heating coils, ripped through electrical boxes for wire and cut the brass nozzles off of fire hoses and extinguishers, according to CHA personel. Three years ago, for example, new fire hoses were installed at a cost of $300,000 in the 28 buildin...
''A week later, all the hoses had been cut or taken,'' said Mayfield.
Among the most popular targets, said CHA officials, are aluminum window frames. Recently, 750 frames disappeared from two CHA high-rises along the South Side lakefront that are undergoing renovation, Mayfield said.
And during the first three months of this year, 4,428 frames, which cost the CHA a total of nearly $1 million, disappeared from other CHA buildings. It cost the agency an additional quarter of a million dollars to board up the casements.
In one case, four men were arrested April 29 for selling to a scrap yard 63 aluminum frames stolen from two buildings at Robert Taylor. The men, two of whom were CHA employees, sold the entire haul for $120, according to police. Each frame costs the CHA about $200.
The recent recycling boom has been estimated to generate $700 million a year in sales nationwide.
To help combat the problem, Lane has set up a committee that is studying the use of alternative parts made of materials with no resale value. The committee has suggested purchasing plastic or wood vinyl-covered window frames, vinyl gutters and hose nozzles of high-impact plastic.
And to investigate internal theft and fraud at the cash-strapped agency, Lane has set up an inspector general`s office headed by Maerz, who was hired Feb. 1.
Maerz`s department includes four retired police officers, who provide valuable experience at a low cost, and one auditor, who has been targeting warehouses and storage areas.
Last month, Maerz`s office apprehended a manager who had stolen $20,000 in 10 months from CHA laundry machines, he said. The manager, who made about $30,000 a year, lived in an expensive downtown building and bought a new luxury car every year, Maerz said. In the face of overwhelming evidence, the manager confessed to ...
To add teeth to the inspector general`s office, Maerz helped to draft a bill that, if passed by the state legislature, would give his office the powers to issue subpoenas.
''If a resident moves out without warning, then the apartment is open to vandalism, and the first thing they do is go for the window,'' said Dolores Wilson, a resident of 1230 N. Burling St. in the Cabrini-Green development.
U.S. President Barack Obama (L) watches Oregon take on GW with his mother-in-law Marian Robinson (L), First Lady Michelle Obama (R) and daughter Sasha Obama (2R). Oregon State is coached by his brother in law Craig Robinson.
President Barack Obama and family stepped away from the White House on Saturday to take in the Oregon State-George Washington University basketball game.
The president, who's been known to shoot a few hoops and even attended a Washington Wizards game earlier this year, went to cheer on his brother-in-law and Oregon State coach Craig Robinson.
Robinson's team beat George Washington 64-57 with President Obama and his family watching from courtside in the half-full Smith Center.
The First Lady, daughters Sasha and Malia, and mother-in-law Marian Robinson are also there, cheering on the Beavers. The first family nabbed courtside seats at the half-full arena, munching on popcorn as Oregon (1-3) handed the Colonials their first loss after four victories.
Coach Robinson said he enjoyed having his family at the game.
"He's a huge basketball fan," Robinson said of the president. "He pays close attention and he's always followed us."
Obama received a basketball signed by GW players and coaches, along with a jersey and shorts. Coach Karl Hobbs thanked Obama and his family for attending the game.
"Students, this is why you come to GW," Hobbs said.
Miranda Paige is excited to join the KDLT team as a news reporter.
She graduated honors from Metropolitan State University of Denver with a degree in Broadcast Journalism. While in college she reported and anchored for her school’s student-run newscast, The Met Report, where she won a student Emmy for anchoring and several SPJ awards for her reporting. She also interned at KKTV in Col...
Miranda was born and raised in Denver, Colorado and is thrilled to explore a new state. Besides her passion for news and storytelling, she also enjoys doing gymnastics or anything fitness related and is an animal lover.
Of all the Cabinet agencies, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) is perhaps the one most overshadowed by the nation’s long-existing national identity struggle of Taiwan versus the Republic of China (ROC), regardless of which party is in power.
The nation’s ties with some of its 18 remaining diplomatic allies were formed when the ROC was still ruling China and long before the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) retreated to Taiwan, its “temporary base,” in 1949.
Therefore, as much as some Taiwanese hate to admit it, several nations the government calls its formal diplomatic allies — such as Guatemala, Nicaragua and the Vatican — established their relations with the ROC, not Taiwan.
That is why, while some of President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) Cabinet members have managed to tactically avoid references to the ROC in their day-to-day business, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs cannot afford the luxury and has to continue using the ROC in its formal engagements.
However, how to address the nation is not the only dilemma the national identity struggle has caused the ministry.
Another major challenge is whether the ministry should put Taiwanese culture or Chinese culture — one of the important legacies of the ROC — at the forefront, a decision that has a more profound impact than some might think.
Within the ministry on Ketagalan Boulevard in Taipei, some meeting rooms and hallways are adorned with Chinese landscape paintings.
Classical Chinese elements are also present in some of the ministry’s gifts to foreign dignitaries.
These things might seem trivial, but they could send a dangerous and misleading message to foreign guests that Taiwanese still think they are best represented by Chinese culture, despite the diverse cultures in Taiwan, and that the nation is culturally inseparable from China.
Such perceptions could weaken and undermine the ministry’s rejection in the international arena of Beijing’s “one China” framework and its claim that Taiwan is part of its territory, adding to the nation’s already dire international predicament.
Fortunately, people have started to notice the problem, thanks to a growing realization that for Taiwan to gain full independence from China, it ought to, first and foremost, attach greater importance to local culture, rather than clinging to the illusion instilled in them by the KMT that Taiwanese are the proud inheri...
Minster of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu (吳釗燮), who took over the ministry in February, made it a policy goal in his first 100 days in office to introduce new gifts for dignitaries that better epitomize Taiwanese culture.
That the ministry chose to mark the 100th day of Wu’s inauguration on Tuesday with the unveiling of seven of the new “Taiwanese” gifts, as well as redecorating the hallway of the main floor where ministry officials receive foreign guests with works by Taiwanese artists, serves as further evidence that such reinvention ...
As Wu’s policy adviser, Kate Hung (洪慧儒), told the media at Tuesday’s ceremony that the essence of diplomacy is introducing the nation to the world and offering outsiders a better understanding of its culture.
Nearly 70 years have passed since the ROC and the brutal KMT regime were forced on Taiwanese — it is about time to move on from the colonizer’s culture and to start telling Taiwan’s own stories.
An 8-year-old dressed as her hero Michelle Obama for school. The former first lady noticed.
An 8-year-old who dressed as a young Michelle Obama for her school’s Cultural Heroes Day has gone viral on social media — and her parents say the costume demonstrates exactly why representation is so important.
The photo, posted to Facebook on Nov. 1, features Ella-Lorraine Brown dressed like her hero dressed during freshman year at Princeton University. Ella-Lorraine nailed the look, down to the hair, bag and hand placement.
An article about the girl’s costume was retweeted by the former first lady on Friday.
“She was really in awe of the idea that with hard work you could become anything,” Brown told the outlet.
Obama has been on tour recently to promote her new book, “Becoming,” and has spoken on the importance of mentorship and positive role models. In the book, she writes about her aspirations to attend Princeton and how a college counselor told her that she didn’t have what it took.
Learning about these role models also serves as a valuable history lesson, he added.
Makers tweeted other instances of Ella-Lorraine dressing up as her female heroes, including Bessie Coleman, the first woman of African American and Native American descent to hold a pilot’s license. She also has dressed as Ruby Bridges, who became a civil rights icon at age 6 when she integrated into William Frantz Ele...
Michelle Obama’s vacation is over. Now she’s claiming her own spotlight.
Michelle Obama is right. We can’t have it all.
It’s “Tricky,” but if you find yourself swaying your head to a familiar beat from a DJ with a familiar look, we suggest you do a double take.
The son of Jam Master Jay is now spinning throughout New York City and he goes by the name DJ Jam Master J’son.
Jam Master Jay was the one-man band for RUN DMC — a DJ with scratches and beats that kept the party going while the Rev. Run and DMC unloaded rhymes. Yet the pioneering rapper encountered the same fate as the greats after him like Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G.
“To the world, Jam Master Jay was lost. To me, I lost my Dad,” says Jason Mizell Jr.
Budget cuts have pared Orange Coast College baseball coach John Altobelli's staff to the point that he is sometimes the only non-player in uniform at a Pirates' practice.
But if he is looking for familiar companionship in his 21st season at the OCC helm, the 2012 Orange Empire Conference Coach of the Year may have only his four remaining veteran assistant coaches with whom to turn.
That is because the wave of success that included the Pirates' first outright OEC title since 1987, a 37-7-1 record that forged the program's best winning percentage since 1957, and a trip to the four-team state championship tournament in 2012, also washed away all but four roster holdovers.
Five of last year's players went on to the professional ranks, while more than a handful of others are now competing at four-year college programs.
In addition to an appreciative nostalgia about last year, in which OCC held the No. 1 ranking in one national poll for most of the season, the personnel void creates confusion about this year's lineup, let alone the team's overall prospects in a 2013 season that begins Friday at Cuesta College.
"It's a whole new group and it has been interesting, to say the least, trying to get that trust going on," said Altobelli, who was also named the Orange Empire Conference Male Coach of the Year for all sports in 2011-12. "These guys are testing me and I'm testing them. Hopefully, they will figure it out sooner than lat...
Altobelli identifies pitching as the key to success this season and while Dallas Draveczki is the only returner from last year's mound corps, Altobelli said he believes the Pirates boast superior pitching depth to a staff that crafted a cumulative 1.87 earned-run average last spring.
"Last year we had four or five really quality guys, then we had a big drop-off," Altobelli said. "This year, we have depth."
Draviczki was 2-0 with a 1.42 ERA in 31 2/3 innings as a freshman, when he made six starts and nine appearances. He is slated to be the No. 3 starter this season, as Hawaii bounce-back Kyle Dowdy and Evan Porcella, a freshman out of El Modena High, open the season as Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, Altobelli said.
Draviczki (6-foot-2, 200 pounds) and Dowdy (6-2, 220) are typical specimens on a pitching staff that averages nearly 6-3 and has seven players who weigh more than 200 pounds.
"We look good in the uniform getting off the bus," Altobelli said with a smile. "I know size doesn't really matter in baseball, but I think it helps a little bit."
Altobelli said David Longville, a 6-3, 220-pound sophomore bounce-back from Hawaii, sophomore Vanguard University transfer Spencer Moran, freshman lefty Jason Broussard (6-4, 215) and freshman Sean Leary (6-3, 215) are additional options on the bump.
Garrett Hartwell (6-4, 195), who played at OCC in 2011, adds left-handed punch to fellow southpaws Porcella and Broussard, while Brian Bass (6-4, 190), a freshman who redshirted last season at Saddleback College, is a side-arming reliever who just might give hitters fits.
Hartwell was 3-0 with a 4.50 ERA in 20 innings in 2011, while sophomore Cory Davis (2-0 with a 3.00 ERA in 18 innings in 2011) has also returned.
Moran was 1-2 with an 8.78 ERA in 13 1/3 innings at Vanguard last season, while Leary pitched just one inning at Pepperdine in 2012.
Altobelli also mentioned freshman Joe Reta and freshman two-way player Jacob Hill as others who could contribute from the rubber.
"If we want to be successful, we have to keep the [opponents'] runs down, because I don't know how many runs we're going to score," said Altobelli, whose team hit .302 and averaged nearly seven runs per game last season.
Danny Jiminez, a sophomore transfer from Irvine Valley College, is the most proven offensive commodity in the infield. The starting first baseman hit .302 with one home run, 18 runs batted in and 12 extra-base hits as a freshman for the Lasers. Altobelli said Jiminez, who posted a .986 fielding percentage in 2012, is a...
Sophomores Ricky Navarro and Manny Argomaniz, both returners, are set to open at second base and shortstop, respectively. Navarro hit .184 with two RBIs in 38 at-bats last season, while Argomaniz hit .208 with three RBIs in 24 at-bats.
Andrew Alvarez, a sophomore transfer from Pepperdine, was slated to start at third base, but a nagging ailment in his throwing shoulder threatens to sideline him for the season, Altobelli said. With Alvarez unable to throw the ball across the diamond, Altobelli said he will turn to freshman Anthony Virgen at the hot co...
Justin Broussard, who hit .310 with 11 RBIs and 13 extra-base hits in 116 at-bats as a freshman infielder, is academically ineligible, Altobelli said.
Altobelli said four outfielders have all distinguished themselves, though he will likely open Friday with sophomore returner Zack Nehrir in left field, freshman Cody Bruder in center and freshman Austin Saenz, who redshirted at Cal State Fullerton last season, in right.
Nehrir hit .209 with four RBIS in 43 at-bats as a freshman last season, while Bruder prepped at Santiago High in Corona.
Freshman Christian Salina is also in the outfield mix after hitting .338 with three homers and 21 RBIs as a senior at Capistrano Valley High in 2012.
Saenz hit .495 with 51 hits, three homers and 25 RBIs as a senior at Mission Viejo High in 2011. He also had 12 doubles and a slugged .699.
There's a four-player logjam behind the plate, where Wichita State bounce-back Tucker Chadd is among three freshmen contending for playing time.
Sophomore Steve Pollakov is a transfer from Rochester University where he hit .179 with six RBIs in 39 at-bats last season.
Freshmen Jake Toll-McKillop and Christian Fillingame are also in the catching mix. Toll-McKillop hit .478 in 67 at-bats with 17 RBIs last season at Terra Linda High in San Rafael.
Altobelli said infield backups include freshman Greg Espinosa (shortstop), freshmen Cooper Michelson and Taylor Grace (second base), as well as freshman Chris Iriart and Hill (first base, designated hitter).
Espinosa hit .400 in 90 at-bats last season at Yucaipa High. He had 10 RBIs, 10 stolen bases and 10 doubles.
OCC's home opener is Feb. 9 against Long Beach City College, while the Pirates begin conference play at home against Golden West on Feb. 28.
Mae is in the studio with Rachel McConachie, a Dignity Health director of oncology services, talking about nurse navigation.
Cancer patients are assigned a nurse navigator who guide them through the cancer care process and act as a liaison among caregivers and physicians. They act as a personal support to the patient and explain what is happening during their care. This relationship helps make this overwhelming journey a little less frighten...
We know what you've been thinking: Whatever does that vaunted legal scholar John Yoo make of the Supreme Court's Boumediene ruling that granted Guantanamo detainees the right to an independent judicial review? He's ag'in it, of course. Yoo wrote in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, "The 5-4 ruling is judicial imperialis...
An 18-year-old Lakeshore man has been charged with one count of attempted murder, following a joint investigation between the Essex Detachment of the OPP and the Windsor Police Service.

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