Practicing for when the order comes down. Box's and J.O.'s cream dream.

Quoted from GrahamBonnet

Practicing for when the order comes down. Box's and J.O.'s cream dream.

Graham really doesn't have a thing to say...
he just posts his usual cliches and leaves.  

Um,  Graham's war bad/Box's war good!  

In 1958 the Air Force dropped an atomic bomb on South Carolina.

Although the bomb did not contain the removable core of fissionable uranium and plutonium
(the core was securely stored in a containment area on board the plane and thus not technically
a traditional "atomic" bomb per se.), it did contain 7,600 pounds (3,447 kg) of TNT .
The resulting explosion created a mushroom cloud and crater estimated to be 75 feet (23 m)
wide and 25–35 feet (7.6–10.7 m) deep.

    INSIGHTS, Albuquerque Tribune
    Thursday, January 20, 1994

A hydrogen bomb was accidentally dropped from a plane just south of Kirtland Air Force Base in 1957

    By LES ADLER, Special to The Tribune

    

At 11:50 a.m. on May 22, 1957, I was a 15-year-old sophomore at Highland High School in Albuquerque when the city and a good portion of the surrounding region were nearly obliterated by the accidental detonation of a 10-megaton hydrogen bomb dropped on the outskirts of Kirtland Air Force Base.

First reported to the public in 1986, this early "broken arrow," as such accidents were referred to in military jargon, became as much a historical "non-event" during the intervening Cold War decades as the recently exposed atmospheric radioactivity showers and radiation experiments. Like these tests, it, too, was a product of what Sen. John Glenn has called "the Cold War frenzy which gripped our nation."

Those of us living in the region had long known, and, indeed, were strangely proud of the fact, that Albuquerque was likely to be a major enemy military target due to the region's role in the production, testing and storage of atomic and hydrogen weaponry.

Nearby Sandia Base, nestled in the foothills of the Manzano Mountains, was widely suspected of housing extensive underground storage facilities where much of the nation's nuclear arsenal was guarded. Electrified, barbed-wire double fences, patrolled by guard dogs, were clearly visible from the highway as one entered or left Albuquerque through Tijeras Canyon to the east. Sixty miles to the northwest, the heavily guarded Atomic City of Los Alamos, creation site of the first atomic bombs and then, as now, a major national arms production laboratory, guaranteed our supremacy as a prime Soviet target.

For a town without major league credentials in any other fashion, this fact produced a certain cachet, particularly in an age of bomb shelters, civil defense programs and above ground bomb testing in nearby Nevada.

Year after year in public schools we practiced air-raid drills, dropping to the floor at the wailing of the alarm, huddling under our desks, eyes closed, heads down and covered by our arms so as not to he blinded by the flash of the incoming weapons.

With the irreverence of teen-age black humor, we short-handed our instructions to the essential and much more realistic message: 'bend down, put your head between your knees and kiss your a** goodbye!"

B-36 BomberOn that particular day in May 1957, unknown to any of us, a huge B-36 bomber with a crew of 13 was preparing to land at Kirtland Air Force base. On board, as recounted in John May's "The Greenpeace Book of the Nuclear Age" and later interviews with surviving crewmen, was the Gold War's ultimate product. It was a 42,000-pound, 10-megaton hydrogen bomb - the largest weapon ever made in the world up to that time, and the first droppable thermonuclear device - traveling incognito under the code name of Mark 17.

The giant bomber, a mainstay of America's Strategic Air Command forces, was commanded by veteran pilot Air Force Lt. Col. Richard Meyer with the mission of ferrying its deadly payload from Biggs Air Force Base in Texas to Albuquerque's Kirtland field.

Standard operating procedure on all such flights called for the manual removal of the locking pin designed to prevent accidental in-flight release of bombs to allow emergency jettisoning of weapons, if necessary, during takeoffs and landings.

The awkward procedure required a crew member, usually the navigator, to climb into the bomb bay and lean over the body of the bomb at the start and end of each flight to set and later remove the large U-2 pin. On May 22,1st Lt. Bob Carp was assigned the onerous task.

With the plane descending to 1,700 feet and making its final approach before landing at Kirtland, Carp began moving back toward the bomb. As described years later by another crewman, the difficult job resulted in Carp hanging over the 25 foot long, steel-encased weapon, roughly the size and shape of a large whale, "literally by his toes" to retrieve the pin. It was 11:49 a.m.

The plane was nearly four miles south of the airfield, and landing conditions were normal as Carp completed his stretch across the gleaming, rounded shape lying silent and inert in the plane's belly. Packed with the explosive power of more than 10 million tons of TNT, enough to destroy a dozen Hiroshimas or Moscows, this bomb and others like it, always in the air somewhere in the world awaiting coded attack signals, formed the foundation of America's proclaimed military posture of "massive retaliation."

Slim Pickens, Dr. StrangeloveWhat happened next is in dispute. Previously published reports describe Carp reaching up to regain his balance and pull himself into the cockpit, and being unexpectedly jolted as the huge bomber bounced through a pocket of turbulent air. Trying to avoid a fall, according to this version, he grabbed for the nearest hand-hold, a lever that immediately gave way under his weight, triggering a rapid succession of events: the giant bomb under his feet instantly sank, pulled free from its mooring and tore its way straight downward, directly through the closed bomb bay doors, ripping them away and opening a gaping, terrifying hole in the bottom of the plane; and the bomber itself; suddenly released from the weight of its 21-ton payload, bounded upward, gaining more than 1,500 feet of altitude in seconds before the startled pilot could regain control.

In a recent interview, however, Carp, now a businessman in San Francisco, has challenged the turbulence-fall scenario. He asserts --- as the one eyewitness to the entire event --- that a "defectively designed" manual release mechanism had been accidentally pulled into release mode by a snag in his long cable, causing the bomb to drop the instant he pulled the pin.

There is agreement on what follows.

"Bombs away!" reflexively screamed one nearby crewman, his eyes wide with shock as he peered in-to the newly opened void where the weapon and the man had been. According to another witness, Electronics Operator Jack Resen, it was only a few seconds later that Carp, his face, "whiter than any sheet you ever saw," slowly pulled himself out of the remaining bomb bay, yelling even above the deafening roar of jet engines and rushing air, "I didn't touch anything! I didn't touch anything!"

Radio Operator George Houston, seated nearby, alertly responded by sending a distress call to the Kirtland tower. To the stunned operator, he reported the ominous news: "We've dropped a hydrogen bomb!"

The bomb itself plummeted downward with frightening speed, the 1,700 foot drop far too short for its parachutes to slow its descent. Long before the plane could pull away, the weapon smashed into the nearly barren mesa, where a lone New Mexico cow peacefully munched sagebrush, oblivious to the source and immediacy of its own destruction. There was an earth-shattering explosion as the weapon detonated.

The Cold War is now officially over. Both the looming presence of the Soviet Union, which so terrified us in that era, and the imminence of nuclear war have vanished from the horizon. More than 36 years have passed since that day in May 1957, when my classmates and I, unknowingly, were nearly vaporized by our own forces.

For most of the intervening years the American public knew nothing of what had happened, and, officially, of course, the event didn't happen at all.

It was only in 1986 when an Albuquerque newspaper published an account based on military documents recovered through the Freedom of Information Act that the rest of us learned of this accident, and the many other Broken Arrows, both civilian and military, that occurred both at home and abroad.

US Dropped Four H-Bombs On Spain In 1966
By Yvonne Zanos
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
12-1-3

PALOMARES, Spain -- Almost 40 years have passed since the U.S. Air Force accidentally dropped four hydrogen bombs on Spain. But the fallout continues with a newly published scientific study that traced the spread of radiation from the accident site -- and continuing rumors about a mysterious fifth bomb that supposedly is still leaking on the Mediterranean Sea floor.

Ironically, while the scientists who conducted the study discount the fifth-bomb theory, their findings have fueled the rumors. They reported that the Mediterranean, indeed, has been contaminated -- but only from radioactive material that washed into the sea from the bombs that hit land. They also said current levels of radioactivity pose no threat to people.

The story goes back to Jan. 17, 1966, when a B-52 bomber and a KC-135 tanker aircraft collided during a refueling exercise over the sleepy farming village of Palomares on Spain's southeastern coast.

Both planes disintegrated and down went the B-52's four hydrogen bombs, creating the first U.S. nuclear weapons crisis near a populated area. Each 1.5-megaton bomb packed 100 times more explosive power than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War II.

Two were found intact. One fell on land, the other into the Mediterranean, where it was recovered after an 80-day effort dramatized in the 2000 Hollywood film "Men of Honor." The movie spotlighted U.S. Navy diver Carl Brashear, who lost a leg in the effort.

Non-nuclear explosives in the other two bombs detonated when they hit the ground. Hydrogen bombs contain conventional explosives that trigger the nuclear blast. Seven pounds of plutonium were splattered over 558 acres of Palomares, forcing an $80 million clean-up by the United States.

Military crews hauled away 1,500 tons of radioactive soil and tomato plants for burial at a nuclear waste dump in Aiken, S.C. Some radioactive material inevitably was left behind, perhaps as much as 15 percent of the total.

"The remainder of the original plutonium clearly has spread, and spread widely," said William R. Schell, a University of Pittsburgh emeritus professor and a member of the international team that reported on the accident in the current edition of the journal Science and the Total Environment. "There's been quite a bit of migration into the Mediterranean."

Radioactivity was detected in western Mediterranean plankton -- tiny plants and animals that drift in the water and serve as staple food for fish and other larger organisms. "It was a surprise," said Joan-Albert Sanchez-Cabeza of the University of Barcelona, head of the research team.

Sanchez-Cabeza explained that plutonium does not dissolve easily in water. Yet somehow, plutonium and a related radioactive material, americium, got into the water and were taken up by marine organisms.

Plutonium is extremely toxic and lingers in the environment for ages. It takes 24,000 years for half of a given amount to decay.

Plutonium outside the body is relatively harmless because it emits a form of radiation that cannot penetrate skin. But when absorbed into the body from air, food or cuts in the skin, it can cause cancer and other serious health problems.

The research team found that the highest radiation levels in the plankton were well below the human danger level set by the World Health Organization. It also learned that the plutonium apparently does not accumulate to higher levels in the fish that eat plankton -- a matter of particular concern to the Spanish, who eat a lot of fish.

"We think that the plutonium found in plankton should not be of serious concern to the public," Sanchez-Cabeza said. "But further research and monitoring is needed."

The study revived rumors that a fifth nuclear bomb from the Palomares accident was never recovered and remains submerged in the Mediterranean, leaking radiation.

A Spanish radio news program dredged up the old stories right after the new study was announced. "That has been a local rumor or worry in the area since the accident," the station's commentator noted. "Well now, the latest radioactive readings in local plankton have started to rise. I'll leave you to decide for yourselves if there is another bomb."

Sanchez-Cabeza, noting the lack of any documentation to support the fifth-bomb theory, said, "Well, that's a big one."

American B-52 bombers in the 1960s typically carried four hydrogen bombs. In another of more than 30 known "Broken Arrow" incidents between 1950 and 1980, a nuclear-armed B-52 crashed near the Thule Air Base in Greenland in 1968. Crews recovered four nuclear bombs.

Researchers dismiss the fifth-nuke stories and believe that contaminated soil from Palomares eventually washed into the ocean after heavy rains. Wind-blown dust, which contains the same chemical "fingerprint" as the radiation found in the soil at Palomares, may be another source.

The U.S. Department of Energy and its Spanish counterpart are monitoring the health of Palomares' 1,500 residents. The Energy Department said the accident so far has caused no known radiation-related cancers or other health problems.

In 2002, the U.S. Air Force surgeon general re-analyzed the radiation exposure of 1,500 U.S. military veterans involved in the Palomares clean up. Their work involved packing contaminated soil in steel drums, burning tainted crops and roto-tilling fields to bury radioactive material. The surgeon general concluded that they were exposed to only one-tenth the current radiation limit for workers at commercial nuclear power plants and other facilities.

The Air Force study reached similar conclusions for 700 personnel involved in cleaning up the Broken Arrow incident in Greenland, which happened when a B-52 caught fire and the crew was forced to bail out. Conventional explosives in the hydrogen bombs detonated in that incident as well, spreading plutonium and other radioactive material over the ice and snow.

In his 1997 book "America's Lost H-Bomb," the late Randall C. Maydew, a government nuclear weapons guru who helped design arming, fusing, firing and safety systems, wrote that the Palomares case and other Broken Arrow episodes produced at least some beneficial fallout: They prompted designers to make weapons less prone to release radioactive material in the case of an accident.
  

US Air Force Admits To Bombing Australia's Great Barrier Reef By Accident
Luke Hopewell 21 July 2013 11:00 PM
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This is why we can’t have nice things.

You didn’t misread the headline. You didn’t misread the calendar. You aren’t dreaming: the United States Air Force bombed our national treasure, the Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef, after a training exercise went wrong.

US officials are today saying that the bombs were dropped from two US AV-8B Harrier aircraft that were running low on fuel. Reports are emerging that the aircraft couldn’t land with the bombs on board based on the amount of fuel they had left. So what did the two pilots do? They bombed the Barrier Reef.

The bombs were meant to be dropped onto Townshed Island as part of a training exercise, but officials reported the mission went awry when the drop zone was declared to be unclear.

Four bombs were dropped into deep waters on the Barrier Reef, but they reportedly haven’t exploded. There’s no word whether the Reef sustained any damage.

US Officials are probably saying that last part like there’s no big deal, but how about we bomb your national-goddamn-treasures and see how you like it, ‘Murica? Jesus. [Sky News]

US Navy set to recover bombs on Barrier Reef

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The US Navy will seek to recover four unarmed bombs it dropped in the Great Barrier Reef when two Harrier jets ran low on fuel, as American troops conduct training exercises with Australian soldiers.

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The US Navy is planning to recover four unarmed bombs it dropped in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and said the chance of them exploding was extremely remote.

The four bombs - two inert and two high explosive but unarmed - were dropped from a pair of US Harrier jets on Tuesday.

The jets were supposed to have dropped the bombs on a range at Townshend Island, north of Rockhampton, but were told the range was not clear. After several failed attempts, the aircraft were running low on fuel and had to drop the bombs at sea.
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Retrieval: The US Navy plans to recover four unarmed bombs that were dropped in the Great Barrier Reef.

They are lying under 60 metres of water, about 100 kilometres offshore and about 16 nautical miles south of Bell Cay in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
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''Due to low fuel and inability to land with the amount of ordnance they were carrying, the on-scene commander determined it was necessary to designate an emergency jettison area for the ordnance,'' US Navy spokesman Commander William Marks said.

He said each bomb was jettisoned in a ''safe, unarmed state and did not explode''.
Sailors and Marines conduct well deck operations during a combat rubber reconnaissance craft (CRRC) and landing craft air cushion (LCAC) joint-force exercise aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6). Click for more photos
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Sailors and Marines conduct well deck operations during a combat rubber reconnaissance craft (CRRC) and landing craft air cushion (LCAC) joint-force exercise aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6). Photo: MC2(SW/AW) Andrew B. Church

    Sailors and Marines conduct well deck operations during a combat rubber reconnaissance craft (CRRC) and landing craft air cushion (LCAC) joint-force exercise aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6).
    Australian Army LARCs (Lighter, Amphibious Resupply, Cargo) craft come ashore from HMAS Choules as part of the amphibious landing at Sabina Point, Shoalwater Bay, Queensland, as part of Exercise Talisman Saber 2013.
    Royal Australian Air Force Leading Aircraftman Mathew Roberts, of No. 1 Airfield Operations Support Squadron, marshals a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules at RAAF Amberley, Queensland during Exercise Talisman Saber 2013.
    Sailors and Marines conduct well deck operations during a combat rubber reconnaissance craft (CRRC) and landing craft air cushion (LCAC) joint-force exercise aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6).
    U.S. Marines and sailors with Golf Company, Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, perform an amphibious landing at Freshwater Beach, Queensland.
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    U.S. Marine Cpl. George Heath, Golf Company, Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, perform an amphibious landing at Freshwater Beach, Queensland.
    U.S. Marines and sailors with Golf Company, Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, perform an amphibious landing at Freshwater Beach, Queensland.
    Royal Australian Navy Seahawk 'Tiger 80' has its lashings removed by the deck crew aboard HMAS Perth (III) prior to conducting a flying mission during Exercise Talisman Saber 2013.
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    A U.S. Navy C-130 Hercules prepares to take off on a missioin from RAAF Base Amberley during Exercise Talisman Saber 2013.
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The US military was trying to avoid errant boaties when it dropped four unarmed bombs on the Great Barrier Reef, he said.

‘‘The approved area where they could do some of this live training with these 500-pound bombs, it was not safe to drop the bombs,’’ he told ABC radio.

‘‘There were civilian boats right below them.’’

The Australian Defence Force said the bombs posed ''minimal risk or threat to the public, the marine environment or civilian shipping transiting the reef area''.

''The incident is being investigated by the US and findings will be provided to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority so that the way ahead can be mutually agreed,'' a spokesman said.

But protesters expressed horror at the bombing of the World Heritage-listed reef. ''How can they protect the environment and bomb the reef at the same time? Get real,'' said Graeme Dunstan, an environmental campaigner who opposes the joint Australian-US military exercise Talisman Sabre.

Each Harrier jet dropped two 227-kilo bombs: one BDU 45 and one High Explosive GBU 12. The BDU 45s are inert and the GBU 12s were unarmed when released, so none exploded.

The extent of damage to the reef or other marine life is unclear.

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority said it would work with the defence force to locate the bombs and ensure they were recovered.

Authority spokesman Bruce Elliot says the devices are considered low risk.

He said two of the bombs did not contain any explosives. The other two were loaded with explosives but weren’t armed when they were dropped.

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Accidental bombing of Neb. town in 1943 still puzzling
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COLUMBUS, NEB. — Norbert Ciecior was 12 years old when his house was bombed.

He and three younger siblings were fast asleep inside the family’s home on the south side of Tarnov when the two B-17 bombers began circling the small Platte County community.

The Columbus Telegram reports that it was around 4 a.m. Monday, Aug. 16, 1943. World War II was being waged on the European and Pacific fronts.

In Tarnov, the roughly 100 townspeople, most of Polish descent, had finished celebrating at the annual harvest festival just three hours earlier.

Ciecior’s mother, Mary, was awakened by the sounds of the planes overhead. She was discussing the noise with her husband, Joseph, when the 100-pound bomb came tearing through the home.

It ripped a hole in the roof of the back porch and busted through a sidewall near the pantry before lodging in the floor, leaving a fin visible when the startled family investigated by lantern light.

The lone casualty, Ciecior said, was a large sack of flour, which added to the cloud of dust and shattered wood inside the home.

His sisters, ages 9 and 5, were sleeping in a bedroom just six feet from where the large metal projectile entered the house, and Ciecior and his 11-year-old brother weren’t far away.

Surprisingly, “I don’t remember any noise,” Ciecior said.

Now 82 and a resident of Columbus, Ciecior shared his unique experience recently with more than 80 attendees of a Platte County Historical Society presentation.

The accidental bombing of his hometown remains nearly as perplexing today as it was seven decades ago.

A report from that day’s Columbus Daily Telegram describes two planes circling Tarnov about 15 times during the night training mission.

The U.S. Army Air Forces aircraft dropped a total of seven practice bombs within a four-block area, most of which landed without causing damage. The metal containers were filled with sand and a small explosive charge, but none detonated.

Uninjured but frightened, the six members of the Ciecior family fled to a neighbor’s house about two blocks away after the bomb hit.

Ciecior said a telegram was sent to his brother stationed in California, but news of the bombing had already reached the West Coast airwaves before it arrived.

In the following days, Ciecior recalled, people from across the country converged on Tarnov to view the damage.

Eleven families were evacuated from the area where the bombs landed.

Humphrey resident Eleanor Jaworski lived one mile west of Tarnov when the incident occurred.

“I remember a lot of people came to our home because they had to evacuate the town,” she said, “and they walked to our home, a lot of them.”

Jaworski, 80, said her mother rushed to kill enough chickens to feed the hungry evacuees.

Her first cousin, also a Tarnov native, later married one of the crew members aboard the planes that August morning.

Although the bombing was investigated by the U.S. Army, Tarnov residents never received a formal explanation for the mistake.

It’s believed lights lining the town’s main street were mistaken for a bomb range located near Stanton, about 30 miles to the northeast.

“As far as we know the government never paid for anything,” Ciecior said, “not even a sack of flour.”

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Tarnov residents celebrated the 50th anniversary of the morning their town was accidentally bombed with a festival in 1993 inviting people to “Get bombed in Tarnov.”

The event featured a reenactment of the bombing using rolls of toilet paper and a representative from the Strategic Air Command offered an apology for the incident.

The small southwest Nebraska town of Dickens was also bombed in the early 1940s when planes leaving a base near McCook accidentally dropped practice bombs on the community.

Significant Nuclear Accidents

February 13, 1950
A B-36 Bomber drops a nuclear weapon from 8,000 ft. over the Pacific Ocean before crashing after experiencing serious mechanical difficulties on a simulated combat mission. Only the weapon's explosive material detonates. The bomb was never recovered from the ocean.

April 11, 1950
A B-29 Bomber carrying a nuclear bomb crashes into a mountain on Manzano Base near Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. The bomb is destroyed but the accompanying nuclear capsule, which had not been inserted into bomb, remains intact.

July 27, 1956
A United States bomber crashes into a storage igloo containing three Mark 6 nuclear bombs at Lakenheath RAF base in the United Kingdom. The resulting fire damages the bombs, but fails to ignite their conventional explosive triggers.

March 10, 1957
A U.S. Air Force B-47 bomber flying from Florida to Europe with two capsules of nuclear materials for bombs fails to meet its aerial refueling plane. No traces are ever found.
     
May 22, 1957
A B-36 ferrying a nuclear weapon from Biggs Air Force Base, Texas to Kirtland accidentally discharges a bomb in the New Mexico desert. The high explosive material detonates, completely destroying the weapon and making a crater approximately 25 ft in diameter and 12 ft deep. Radiological survey of the area disclosed no radioactivity beyond the lip of the crater at which point the level was 0.5 milliroentgens. The nuclear capsules had not been inserted into the bombs. A nuclear detonation was not possible.

July 28, 1957
A C-124 aircraft en-route from Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, loses power in two engines and jettisons two nuclear weapons over the Atlantic ocean. The nuclear weapons were never found.

February 5, 1958
An F-86 aircraft and a B-47 Bomber collide midair on a simulated combat mission out of Homestead Air Force Base, Florida. The B-47 jettisons its nuclear weapon, which is not found and is considered irretrievably lost.

March 11, 1958
A B-47 bomber accidentally drops a nuclear weapon over Mars Bluff, South Carolina. The conventional explosive trigger detonates, leaving a crater 75 feet wide and 35 feet deep.

November 4, 1958
A B-47 catches fire on take-off and crashes, killing one crew member. The high explosive in the nuclear weapon on board explodes leaving a crater 35 feet in diameter and 6 feet deep. Nuclear materials are recovered near the crash site.

November 26, 1958
A B-47 catches fire on the ground. The single nuclear weapon on board is destroyed by fire. Contamination is limited to the immediate vicinity.

January 23, 1961
A B-52 bomber carrying two 24 megaton bombs crashes at Goldsboro, North Carolina. On one of the bombs, five of six interlocking safety devices fail, and a single switch prevents detonation. The explosion would have been 1,800 times more powerful than the bomb exploded at Hiroshima.

June 4, 1962
A nuclear warhead atop a Thor rocket booster falls into the Pacific Ocean when the booster has to be destroyed.

June 20, 1962
A second Thor rocket booster fails, and the nuclear device falls into the Pacific.

April 10, 1963
An American nuclear submarine, Thresher, sinks in the North Atlantic, killing all 129 crewmen.

December 5, 1965
A nuclear-armed airplane rolls off the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga and sinks in 16,000 feet of water off the coast of Japan.

January 17, 1966
A B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons has a midair accident while refueling and drops four nuclear weapons on Palomares, Spain. Although no nuclear explosion occurs, conventional explosions in two of the weapons scatter radioactive material over a populated area.

January 21, 1968
A B-52 bomber crashes while attempting an emergency landing at Thule Air Force Base, Greenland. The high explosive components of all four nuclear weapons aboard detonate, producing plutonium contamination over an area approximately 880,000 sq. feet.

May 21, 1968
The American nuclear submarine Scorpion sinks in the Atlantic near the Azores, killing 99 crewmen.

January 14, 1969
A bomb is accidentally dropped on the deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, killing 25 and wounding 85 crewmen.

April 16, 1976
A nuclear warhead on the cruiser USS Albany is damaged (this type of incident is code-named Dull Sword).

June 3, 1980
A 46-cent computer chip fails, causing the mistaken detection of a Soviet missile attack by the NORAD system. About 100 B-52 bombers were readied for take off along with the President's airborne command post before the error is detected.

September 20, 1980
A technician dropping a wrench and breaking a fuel tank causes an explosion in the silo of a Titan II Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile. The explosion blows off the 740-ton door and sends the re-entry vehicle with its 9-megaton warhead 600 feet into the air, killing one man and injuring 21 others.

April 9, 1981
The USS George Washington, a submarine carrying 160 nuclear warheads, collides with a Japanese freighter in the East China Sea.

November 2, 1981
An American Poseidon nuclear missile being winched from the submarine support ship USS Holland falls seventeen feet when the winch runs free. The automatic brakes on the winch bring it to rest just above the submarine's hull.

March 21, 1984
The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk collides with a Soviet attack submarine. The submarine is carrying nuclear armed torpedoes and the carrier is armed with several dozen nuclear weapons.

March 20, 1993
A Russian Delta III class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine collides with the USS Grayling, a nuclear-powered attack submarine in the Barent Sea.

we are for "peace"

Just declassified:

Two hydrogen bombs broke loose as B-52 crashed. Disaster averted by one safety mechanism.
Hiroshima


One of two hydrogen bombs that a doomed B-52 accidentally dropped on North Carolina in 1961 came perilously close to exploding, according to a recently declassified report.

The 4-megaton Mark 39 bombs -- each packing 260 times the explosive power of the weapon that decimated Hiroshima -- broke loose over Goldsboro, N.C., as the bomber went into a tailspin and crashed.
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All four safety mechanisms designed to prevent accidental detonation worked properly on one bomb, which landed in a meadow, but three failed on the other, and only a low-voltage switch kept it from exploding upon impact in a field in Faro, N.C., said the 1969 report.

Had the warhead exploded, radioactive fallout could have spread over the Eastern Seaboard, hitting Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York.

The accident happened just three days after President John F Kennedy was inaugurated in January 1961. Five of the eight crew members survived the crash.

The report was obtained by Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser for his newest book, Command and Control, about the nuclear arms race. Schlosser found that between 1950 and 1968 alone, at least 700 "significant" accidents and incidents involving 1,250 nuclear weapons were recorded.

Mother Jonesfirst reported Schlosser's findings Sunday, and the Goldsboro incident attracted new attention Friday based on an article in the Guardian. The British paper also published the report, written by Parker F. Jones, the supervisor of the nuclear weapons safety department at Sandia National Laboratories.

Jones titled his report "Goldsboro Revisited or: How I Learned to Mistrust the H-Bomb," a nod to Stanley Kubrick's 1964 nuclear satire, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

The creamdream of Box and J.O. Box is that the military be unleashed on the political opposition of the regime and the political class. This is in the works, and people like Box and J.O. can't wait for the blood of the citizenry to be shed by the military in defense of "The Republic."

Quoted from GrahamBonnet

The creamdream of Box and J.O. Box is that the military be unleashed on the political opposition of the regime and the political class. This is in the works, and people like Box and J.O. can't wait for the blood of the citizenry to be shed by the military in defense of "The Republic."

Again, Graham has no opinion.  He can only lash out at strangers to sooth his corrupt view.