Ok guys, well apologies if this seems to be getting even more ridiculous than my first enquiry. This is roughly what the book says about the deployment of the photoflash bombs.
"The exercise was called Photoflash and was to use a device dropped from helicopters. The device is a potassium perchlorate bomb and this was exploded over the ocean to illuminate the area beneath"
It says that up to 80 of these flashes could be expected, I would have thought that such an event would have been quite devastating to marine life.
Would it be possible for helicopters to deploy these?