Show r I II High Precision Reported In Nuclear Tests By ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON High bombing precision is reported to be indicated in preliminary data on the opening phases of the Pacific nuclear The air drop from an Air Force bomber of a nuclear device on first shot in the test was described in some quarters as having been virtually detonating precisely the point in mid-air which had been A SECOND air burst of a device was made but there was no immediate indication of results on this Since the advent of the atomic bomb in dozens of test devices and actual bombs have been dropped by Air Force including the two combat shots on WITH FEW they have been on or satisfactorily close to the aiming Only two known misses have been reported In the 1946 series at the Marshall Island proving an air drop from a exploded several hundred yards wide of the In a device dropped by a jet bomber was almost four miles off the intended bursting |