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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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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]
