“Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931–2015)
Aerial view of an underwater burst of a nuclear-armed antisubmarine rocket (ASROC) taken from an A3D-2P Skywarrior photo reconnaissance aircraft. The photo is from the Photographic Report: Swordfish Test, 11 May 1962. Note the ship circled in red at right. The photo originally was classified but later was declassified.
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