http://rt.com/usa/air-force-dropped-hydrogen-bomb-155/

9/20/2013 11:42:16 PM

9/20/2013 11:51:49 PM

I saw this making the rounds today

And






OLD

9/20/2013 11:52:41 PM

There's a big difference between "dropped" and "fell out of a plane that disintegrated."

9/21/2013 12:22:55 AM

i love how instead of talking about how devastating it would have been to north carolina, the article states fallout could have risked lives of people in dc philly and nyc.

9/21/2013 3:15:43 AM

I'd like to think we've gotten a little better about shit like this over the years. We all know that's probably not true.

9/21/2013 7:16:49 AM

Nuking NC isn't looking too bad lately.

9/21/2013 7:18:25 AM

I've known about this for at least 15 if not 20 years so yes [VERY OLD]

9/21/2013 8:51:07 AM

Something happened in 1961 and you've known about it for 20 years. You sir, are a legend.

9/21/2013 8:52:23 AM

http://www.ibiblio.org/bomb/story.html

9/21/2013 8:59:55 AM

oh cool, the news reporting on something that's been public knowledge for 50 years!

and I love the alarmist tone of this latest round of stories.
" IT ALMOST WENT OFF BECAUSE EVERYTHING ALMOST FAILED"
this is part of the reason they have multiple safety switches, so if some fail the bombs don't go off. Shit, you're playing with fire when it comes to nuclear weapons. I'm surprised there hasn't been a major accident.


from ^

Quote :

"The parachute-retarded weapon came closest to firing; the official reports claim that three of four arming steps were completed. Since the aircraft commander had not thrown the arming switch in the B-52 cockpit, and since that switch was not activated accidentally when the aircraft broke up, it was impossible for the weapon(s) to fire, regardless of how uncomfortably close they came to doing so."

[Edited on September 21, 2013 at 10:13 AM. Reason : .]

9/21/2013 9:52:05 AM

Quote :

"PARACHUTE RETARDED WEAPON"

9/21/2013 10:34:32 AM

too bad it didn't go off, we could have blamed it on the Soviets and won the Cold War

9/21/2013 10:51:09 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash

9/21/2013 11:05:04 AM

Nuclear Mishap is a great way to describe Wayne county.

9/21/2013 11:33:15 AM

too bad that it wasn't detonated.

Western NC bbq wins

9/21/2013 11:45:14 AM

http://www.newsargus.com/news/archives/2011/01/23/the_bomb_one_click_from_armageddon/



[OLD]

[REALLY OLD]

[Technically, 52 years old]

9/21/2013 1:25:12 PM

why are flying around north carolina with hydrogen bombs

9/21/2013 1:37:58 PM

Quote :

"The aircraft, a B-52G based at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, was on a 24-hour "Coverall" airborne alert mission on the Atlantic seaboard."

reading is fundamental

9/21/2013 2:13:07 PM

yeah not sure why this is being reported now... I thought this was common knowledge. Can you imagine the effect on the world that would have had if goldsboro was vaporized? Those poor people in DC and NY who would have gotten fallout ( )

9/21/2013 3:20:13 PM

Old news.

The funny thing is they never bothered to recover one of the bombs. Still (very unlikely) could blow up.

9/21/2013 9:47:40 PM

message_topic.aspx?topic=630979&page=2#15541361
exactly 365 days earlier

9/21/2013 10:22:03 PM

Quote :

"One of the bombs performed in the same way as those dropped over Japan less than 20 years before - by opening its parachute and engaging its trigger mechanisms. The only thing that prevented untold thousands, or perhaps millions, from being killed was a simple low voltage switch that failed to flip. "

This goes a little bit further than previous accounts I've heard.

9/21/2013 10:26:34 PM

Quote :

"The funny thing is they never bothered to recover one of the bombs. Still (very unlikely) could blow up."

they tried very hard to find it. it fell in a swampy, muddy area and some smart guys calculated that it went pretty damn deep in the ground (i can't remember the number).

9/21/2013 10:29:13 PM

Yea the fact 3/4 fail safes didn't work is new info. Heh, they probably would've blamed it on Russia and none of us would be here. Also, I'll probably read that dudes book

9/22/2013 12:00:23 AM

too bad it never happened

goldsboro is a shithole

9/22/2013 12:47:39 AM

This does not bother me.

FYI a nuclear explosion has to be started in a certain way. This would have just been a hydrogen explosion if it would have went off.... Aka giant fireball.

9/22/2013 6:43:19 AM

so many things need to go right that have such a high chance of going wrong for a hydrogen bomb to function properly anyway

and that "low voltage switch failed to activate" sensationalism is pretty chuckle-worthy


They might as well have said "If the bomb had been struck by lightning on it's descent, there is a small chance it may have detonated"

9/22/2013 8:22:32 AM

Quote :

"Just like Adam and Eve, said you'd set me free You took me to the sky, Id never been so high You were my pills, you were my thrills You were my hope, baby, you were my smoke You dropped a bomb, hey, babe"

9/22/2013 8:28:29 AM

I wonder what percentage of tdubbers wouldn't exist had this thing detonated in '61.

9/22/2013 10:23:39 AM

Man this is so incredibly old. Nothing new was found out in this "new" document.

I liked it better when less people knew about it. That when when I told people that a nuclear bomb fell 10 minutes from where I grew up, it was a cool story no one had ever heard about.

9/22/2013 11:17:33 AM

don't be a hydrogen bomb hipster

9/22/2013 11:22:10 AM

I like how fools are STILL trying to roll into this thread talking about how old it is.


NO SHIT SHIRLOCK!. It happened in 196fucking1.

9/22/2013 11:31:24 AM

My parents said it was widely reported when it happened.

9/22/2013 8:05:50 PM

this was on purpose

http://www.filmsforaction.org/news/us_army_sprayed_zinc_cadmium_sulfide_on_poor_st_louis_residents/

9/22/2013 10:32:15 PM

[quote]I liked it better when less people knew about it. That when when I told people that a nuclear bomb fell 10 minutes from where I grew up, it was a cool story no one had ever heard about.[quote]

Just wait a few months...then people will be all "I think I heard about that once."

A few months after that and you back to golden.

9/23/2013 9:04:24 PM

Yeah that was long time ago.

9/23/2013 9:17:06 PM

Didnt this happen in the previous century?

9/23/2013 9:19:23 PM