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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

Think of the most amazing spectrum analyzer you could build with 1960s technology. Just to rank how difficult it was to protect a B-52 in a dense defensive radar environment, our current B-2 stealth bomber has a radar signature of about an aluminum marble, while the B-52 designed in 1950 has the radar signature of a 170-foot sphere.