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The luck of the draw had placed a huddled group of airmen inside a converted railroad boxcar, operating a Radar Bomb Scoring site. Their car full of sophisticated gadgetry had been trundled out to a windblown siding by some passing freight train in the night, and left rusting to the tracks for months on end. The RBS technicians cranked and tuned their black boxes and radar dish, to track and score the theoretical point of impact for the bomber crew's electronic thermonuclear weapon. When all of the B-52s black boxes accomplished the preset magic the designers intended, there were no targets anyplace on planet earth that could not be obliterated with unerring accuracy….
