The Air Force’s General Hoyt Vandenberg was equally ready for strategic attacks on the China mainland. A top Defense Department civilian struck the rising note: “We have come to the point with ...

By the way, Arthur Vandenberg was the uncle of Hoyt Vandenberg, the Air Force general who became the director of the CIA. At the risk of offending Hank Meijer (as the author is called), I will ...

This story appears in the February 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. It took just over two minutes for the missile-tracking ship General Hoyt S. Vandenberg to sink to the bottom of the ...