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Edited by Progo:
9/21/2013 9:01:52 PM
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USA almost nuked itself in 1961
This is a hilarious, but unsettling read. The nukes were 260 times more powerful than the Nagasaki party popper.
[quote]In North Carolina, the two atomic bombs were released after a B-52 airplane carrying the payload went into a tailspin during a routine test flight — one of the bombs eventually landed in a tree, and the other in a meadow, The Guardian says. The document says the bombs should have detonated — parachutes were deployed and triggers were armed, but one low-voltage switch failed to activate as it should have, preventing what would have been devastating and widespread damage.[/quote]
Talk about the ultimate way for a country to crap it's own pants.
Oh and the fallout would have hit Philly and NYC hehehe...
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5 RepliesWhy give apes weapons of mass destruction, this is the 2nd time America almost nuked itself, I remember an unarmed nuke being dropped in the ocean due to a plane fault forcing the bomb drop.
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1 ReplyEdited by Flying Cougar: 9/21/2013 9:40:07 PMhttp://www.hkhinc.com/newmexico/albuquerque/doomsday/ The same thing almost happened in Albuquerque.
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1 Reply[quote]The document says the bombs should have detonated — parachutes were deployed and triggers were armed, but one low-voltage switch failed to activate as it should have, preventing what would have been devastating and widespread damage.[/quote] This is crap. It didn't fail...it worked perfectly. Yes, there are numerous safing devices on bombs, but most have to do with its travel so that it doesn't detonate in storage or in-transit. These sequences includes arming only after an elapsed time from launch of the plane, after the weapon travels a certain distance, after a specific change in pressure occurs (to ensure proper height of deployment), and after experiencing a specific acceleration or deceleration. Most weapons use several types of fuzes to ensure correct detonation. In this case, the drop conditions were close enough to the programmed conditions for the test that every other safing mechanism released, but the final one prevented arming. The document does not say the last mechanism failed...it actually says it was the only effective mechanism on the device. So more hype and nonsense from what could have been a really interesting article.
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Weve set off plenty of nukes in, under and above the us, this wouldnt have made a difference unless it hit a populated center. And since it is in NC, i really wish it had gone off, imagine the difference it could have made.
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1 Reply'Murica
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1 ReplyWell, The United States is God's favorite country.
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1 ReplyEdited by Camnatard: 10/7/2013 5:17:09 PMMall Squad was on standby to avert the disaster. We are the security guards this forum needs.
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ITT: Edgy Eurobabies
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My History teacher told me that the other day. This news came up just as we were about to learn about the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.
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1 ReplyThe US has done extensive Nuclear testing, both surface, sub-surface, and atmospheric. One or two more wouldn't have done much, unless it detonated on/near a populated area.
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God saved us.
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3 RepliesUSA had been nuking itself for decades.
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If only they did. The world would be a much better place.
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They did nuke themselves. A couple times already. [spoiler]In military test sites[/spoiler]
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3 RepliesIf it's a test flight, why carry live payloads?
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Too bad the bomb didn't activate.
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1 ReplyEdited by NaLo: 9/21/2013 9:33:06 PMAnd that's not exactly the only time. [quote]An honorable mention goes to the Duluth bear, in which a guard saw a bear climbing a fence at an Air Force base and rang an alarm. The alarm connected to other nearby bases, but one of them was wired wrong, so instead of "intruder alert!" they got the "Nuke Russia Now!" alarm. Nuclear armed jets were on the runways ready to take off before the mistake was rectified.[/quote] And in 1983 a couple of clouds almost started WWIII [quote][url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-505009/September-26th-1983-The-day-world-died.html]The alert on September 26th, 1983 had been a false one. Later, it was discovered that what the satellite's sensors had picked up and interpreted as missiles in flight was nothing more than high-altitude clouds.[/url][/quote]
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1 ReplyI don't know if im thinking of another incident but I saw a documentary and a bomber carrying a Nuke to somewhere overseas and the plane had problems and they had to drop the bomb in the pacific ocean but it didn't have the (plutonium?) in it so it wasn't a big explosion and the plane crashed in the mountains and the government retrieved the plutonium and blew up the remains of the plane.
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Think about it... a world with no Appalachian redneck jokes.
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Damn it, they were supposed to go off!
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Cool.
