PRESS QUESTIONS - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates conducts a press conference following the NATO Defense MInisterial in Istanbul, Feb. 5, 2010. DoD photo by Cherie CullenWhat is Robert Gates Really Fighting For? -- Time Magazine
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates flies around the world to war zones and allies, to China and Russia and Suriname, on a Cold War relic called the Doomsday Plane. Forged in the 1970s by Boeing, it was designed to stay aloft even in the midst of nuclear war. It's an airborne Pentagon. The plane is so heavy that it needs refueling in midair on long flights. The Air Force crew aboard told me that on occasion, the fuel nozzle from the floating tankers has smashed through the pilots' windshield like an angry space creature. It's one of a handful of planes coated with nuclear-attack shielding and capable of emitting launch codes to all U.S. missile silos.
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