A.L.C.M.

Contributed by: The Complete James Bond Movie Encyclopedia by Steven Jay Rubin

Abbreviated designation of the cruise missiles carried by a U.S. Air Force B-l bomber in Never Say Never Again. For a test designed to “assess distance and accuracy of cruise missile release from the support country,” two missiles are loaded into the bomb bay of the B-1, based at Swadley Air Force Base in Britain. Officers on the base assume that the missiles are dummies, but thanks to traitorous Captain Jack Petachi (GAVAN O’HERLIHY), they’re actually armed with W-80 thermonuclear warheads.

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