read with interest your cover story about the B-36 Peacemaker [July]. I grew up in Albuquerque, N.M., in the 1950s and don’t remember many sounds from back then, but I do remember the low buzz that B-36s made when landing at Kirtland AFB near Sandia Army Base where I lived. After World War II, my father was head of the Fuzing & Firing Department for Sandia Corp. and the Atomic Energy Commission since he worked for both at Los Alamos Labs. He worked on our second-generation nuclear bombs, including the giant Mark
