The incident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power station in Londonderry ... telephones Thornburgh and offers his assistance. A siren goes off in downtown Harrisburg, causing some panic.

Jim Lounsbury: While relations with Iran are at what seems to be an irreversible downslide, 1979 marked the year which saw the U.S. begin normal diplomatic relations with an old-time enemy.

Retired Colonel Oran Henderson, the head of Pennsylvania's Emergency Management Agency, informed Thornburgh of the incident at Three Mile Island on ... of an air raid siren that rang out through ...

DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. — On March 28 ,1979, the Unit 2 reactor on Three Mile Island went through a partial meltdown, marking the worst nuclear power accident in U.S. history. With Constellation ...