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Post by Commandingtripod on Sept 6, 2007 12:44:28 GMT 1
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Post by richardburton on Sept 6, 2007 12:46:47 GMT 1
Yep, this is just insane. It's one of those stories that you wish you'd never heard - sometimes ignorance is better!
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Post by malfunkshun on Sept 12, 2007 8:18:11 GMT 1
whats the big deal? seriously? were they afraid one might 'go off'? geez. there's plenty of them buried in montana and kansas. we've got nuclear power plants all over the place. why get so hot and bothered about a B-52 actually flying with a nuclear payload? thats what they're for.
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Post by richardburton on Sept 13, 2007 9:14:10 GMT 1
It's the fact that it was loaded with a nuclear payload BY ACCIDENT. What if that bomber was on a test bombing run? Was off to drop its conventional payload on a desert test site and...oops...big mushroom cloud...wasn't expecting that. I know there's detonation codes etc which would probably mean they wouldn't go off, but there's always a possibility plus an even higher chance of a radiation leak if it didn't go off.
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Post by mrgrotey on Sept 13, 2007 10:14:34 GMT 1
This reminds me of that line in Broken Arrow. "I don't know what's scarier, losing a nuclear weapon or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it. "  |
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Post by richardburton on Sept 13, 2007 10:22:42 GMT 1
lol yes class line!
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