On the morning of May 28, 1957, NATO representatives observed the 12-kiloton Plumbbob Boltzmann test at the Nevada Proving Ground in NTS Area 7c (37.094700, -116.024500). Detonated atop a 500-foot tower, this shot tested an experimental, lightweight (295-pound), boosted-fission XW-40 warhead 31.6-inches long by 18-inches wide.
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Plumbbob Boltzmann nuclear test showing journalists at News Nob illuminated by the fireball (w/o sunblock 1 million), and the radioactive mushroom cloud rising into the sky.
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May 28, 2000: the 1959 remake of ON THE BEACH was presented on Showtime, 1 hr longer than the original.
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The Los Angeles class submarine in this movie uses a "caterpillar" (silent) drive as was used by the Soviet submarine Red October in The Hunt for Red October (1990). The original 1959 film has the lovely Ava Gardner with Gregory Peck and Anthony Perkins, which was also filmed in Australia.
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May 28, 1987: Mathias Rust landed his rented Cessna 172 almost 550 miles from Helsinki, Finland, through heavily-protected airspace and landed about 6:43pm near Red Square in Moscow. Ironically, it was Border Guards Day in the Soviet Union. He served a 14 month prison term in the USSR for the stunt. He was pardoned in August 1988 as a goodwill gesture and expelled to West Germany. In '89 he stabbed a nurse who barely survived and served only 15 months.
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Rust’s flight was an unmitigated embarrassment for the reputation of the Soviet military. Within days, Mikhail Gorbachev used it to justify removing the minister of defense, the chief of air defense forces, and hundreds of lower-level officers opposed to Perestroika and Glasnost.
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In 2012, the BBC described him as a "financial analyst and a yoga instructor." Rust's stunt was a punchline on THE GOLDEN GIRLS.
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2012 Guardian report, largely narrated by Rust. "Part of my character is that I like to push limits. I like to cross lines, to figure for myself out how far I can go. ... That’s why the flight to Moscow is still a good experience for me ...."
Tall, dark and handsome, charismatic rebel of 1960s Hollywood, RIP.
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George Maharis, Star of ‘Route 66,’ Dies at 94
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Maharis last film was the 1993 romance/horror B-movie Doppelganger starring Drew Barrymore.
Plumbbob Boltzmann nuclear test showing journalists at News Nob illuminated by the fireball (w/o sunblock 1 million), and the radioactive mushroom cloud rising into the sky.
May 28, 2000: the 1959 remake of ON THE BEACH was presented on Showtime, 1 hr longer than the original.
The Los Angeles class submarine in this movie uses a "caterpillar" (silent) drive as was used by the Soviet submarine Red October in The Hunt for Red October (1990). The original 1959 film has the lovely Ava Gardner with Gregory Peck and Anthony Perkins, which was also filmed in Australia.
May 28, 1987: Mathias Rust landed his rented Cessna 172 almost 550 miles from Helsinki, Finland, through heavily-protected airspace and landed about 6:43pm near Red Square in Moscow. Ironically, it was Border Guards Day in the Soviet Union. He served a 14 month prison term in the USSR for the stunt. He was pardoned in August 1988 as a goodwill gesture and expelled to West Germany. In '89 he stabbed a nurse who barely survived and served only 15 months.
Rust’s flight was an unmitigated embarrassment for the reputation of the Soviet military. Within days, Mikhail Gorbachev used it to justify removing the minister of defense, the chief of air defense forces, and hundreds of lower-level officers opposed to Perestroika and Glasnost.
In 2012, the BBC described him as a "financial analyst and a yoga instructor." Rust's stunt was a punchline on THE GOLDEN GIRLS.
2012 Guardian report, largely narrated by Rust. "Part of my character is that I like to push limits. I like to cross lines, to figure for myself out how far I can go. ... That’s why the flight to Moscow is still a good experience for me ...."
Tall, dark and handsome, charismatic rebel of 1960s Hollywood, RIP.
George Maharis, Star of ‘Route 66,’ Dies at 94
Maharis last film was the 1993 romance/horror B-movie Doppelganger starring Drew Barrymore.
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